Author: United States Centennial CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The National Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Independence of the United States by an International Universal Exhibition, to be Held in Philadelphia in the Year 1876
Author: United States Centennial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Acadia National Park
Author: Tom Blagden, Jr.Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0847849147
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The official book of Maine’s treasured and New England’s only national park, on the occasion of the park’s centennial. Created in 1916, and encompassing 45,000 acres on two islands and a mainland peninsula on the rugged coast of Maine, Acadia National Park is a jewel of granite mountains, filigreed coastlines, unique cultural resources, dazzling night skies, and precious communities of plant and animal life. Drawing more than 2.5 million visitors each year, Acadia is one of the ten most popular national parks in the United States. The only illustrated book officially published with the Friends of Acadia, this stunning portfolio of photographs reveals Acadia’s diverse habitats and brings home the contrasts of pounding ocean and silent coves, bald mountain summits and deep forest valleys, as never before seen.The essays convey the unseen story of Acadia: its history as a national park; the critical role of the founding families in its creation; the past and current importance of private stewardship; and its status as a unique park forged in a particular time and place in history. Acadia National Park celebrates the essence of this special place and offers a cherished journey into its past, present, and future.
Remembering the Centennial
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Volunteer workers in forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Refinancing the Bond Indebtedness of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
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Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Authorization of Nonperforming Arts Functions of the Kennedy Center
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and GroundsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
UP in the Time of People Power, 1983-2005
Author: To Amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to Effect Agreements on Financial Relationships Between the Board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Secretary of the Treasury
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and GroundsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bonds
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Official Gazette
Author: PhilippinesPublisher:
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Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education
Author: Designing the Centennial
Author: Bruno GibertiPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813181488
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity—the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the center of this movement was a shift in the perceived relationship between seeing and knowing and in the perception of what makes an object valuable—its usefulness as a subject of study and learning versus its ability to be bought and sold on the market. Arguments over design of the Centennial reflected these opposing viewpoints. Initial plans were rigidly structured, dividing the exhibits by country and type. But as some exhibitors became more interested in the preferences of their audience, they adopted a more modern stance. Objects traditionally displayed in isolated glass boxes were placed in fictive context—the necklace draped over a mannequin, the vase set on a table in a model room. As a result, the audience could more easily perceive these items as commodities suitable for their own environments and the fair as a place to find ideas for a material lifestyle. Designing the Centennial is a vital first look at the design process and the nature of the display. Bruno Giberti uses official reports of the U.S. Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to illuminate how the 1876 fair revealed changes to come: in future world's fairs, museums, department stores, and in the nature of display itself.