Author: American Institute of the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New-York, for the Year ...
Author: American Institute of the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New-York
Author: American Institute of the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New-York
Author: Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York
Author: American Institute of the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
1st-32d 1841-1871/72 issued also as Legislative documents.
Double Fold
Author: Nicholson BakerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400033047
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker’s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archives are destroyed with a machine called a guillotine. Baker argues passionately for preservation, even cashing in his own retirement account to save one important archive–all twenty tons of it. Written the brilliant narrative style that Nicholson Baker fans have come to expect, Double Fold is a persuasive and often devastating book that may turn out to be The Jungle of the American library system.
Catalogue
Author: Melbourne parl. librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Legislative Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania During the Session of ...
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Making Culture Visible
Author: Julie K. BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429761953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
First published in 2001. Making Culture Visible provides a fresh focus on the history of nineteenth-century photography. The narrative moves from a close focus on several selected events between 1847 and 1900, beginning with six industrial fairs of the 1840s-1860s to the looming presence of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in the mid-1870s. The last two chapters deal with the exhibition work of the Smithsonian Institution’s US National Museum in the 1880s and finally the collecting and displays of public libraries in the 1890s. The evolution of the increasingly complex social function of photography is clearly demonstrated.