Author: Kenneth MyersPublisher: Hudson River Museum
ISBN: 9780943651057
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Catskills
Author: Kenneth MyersPublisher: Hudson River Museum
ISBN: 9780943651057
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Yosemite and Sequoia
Author: Richard J. OrsiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339878
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to fight private land claims to the valley. By 1890, however, a public park system was firmly established in California when the Yosemite high country and much of what is now Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks were set aside as federally protected, public preserves. This collection of essays and photographs, originally published as a special issue of California History, documents the creation and management of California's first three national parks. As the essays remind us, the issues of park development so hotly debated today were raised first in Yosemite nearly a century ago. Yosemite's significance in landscape art, its role in the development of western tourism, and its promotion as one of the great icons of American culture are among the other major themes discussed here.
Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society
Author: Dutchess County Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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The Art Journal
Author: New York Supreme Court
Author: Munsey's Magazine
Author: The Book Buyer
Author: Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers
Author: Mantle FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
American Engravers and their Works
Author: W. S. BakerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385392519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Catalogue of Paintings
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description