Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9781022383968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Historical Magazine And Notes And Queries Concerning The Antiquities, History And Biography Of America, Volumes 19-20
Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9781022383968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America
Author: the historical magazine and notes and queries concerning the antiques, history and biography of america vol. 1 second series
Author: Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Historical Magazine
Author: John Ward DeanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures
Author: Erin PauwelsPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096446
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age, his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer’s signature in golden letters was a New York City landmark visited by celebrities such as Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mark Twain. Sarony’s story represents a central chapter in the history of photography. Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures documents Sarony’s career as New York City’s premier portrait photographer and details a moment when the birth of celebrity culture and growth of mass media helped promote popular acceptance of photography as fine art. Sarony’s larger-than-life public image was crucial to demonstrating photography’s creative potential. At a time when photographers were commonly regarded as straitlaced entrepreneurs or technicians, Sarony circulated self-portraits in outlandish costumes to assert himself as a flamboyantly eccentric artist. These photographic performances forged an authoritative link between the so-called father of artistic photography in America and the stylish celebrity portraits that emerged from his studio by the tens of thousands. Reconstructing Sarony’s biography and bringing to light never-before-published portraits, Erin Pauwels provides an illuminating view of how one artist’s quest for creative recognition fueled the rise of celebrity culture and artistic photography in the United States. This book will appeal to historians of photography and nineteenth-century American visual culture, as well as anyone interested in this master of the medium of photography and his celebrity subjects.
The Original American Spies
Author: Paul R. MisencikPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476612919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not trained as covert agents, which meant they had to develop their skills and techniques on their own, often while in the midst of the enemy where discovery meant almost certain death for them, and suffering and hardship for their family and friends. Five of them spied for the American cause and two spied for the British. Not all were motivated by patriotism, and not all escaped capture, yet their often painfully gained experience benefited future operatives and operations. They all were daring, intelligent and resourceful, and each had an unusual personality. Their labors resulted in battlefield victories, thwarted enemy plots, and significantly changed the conduct of the war, yet in spite of their efforts and their riveting stories, they and their deeds have remained relatively unknown.
Catalogue of the Library of Congress ; Index of Subjects, in Two Volumes
Author: A Slave in the White House
Author: Elizabeth Dowling TaylorPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 113700018X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller: A “fascinating portrait” of one of the men enslaved by James and Dolley Madison, and his journey toward freedom (Publishers Weekly). Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once he was finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former owner, money from his own pocket, write the first White House memoir, and see his sons fight with the Union Army in the Civil War. He died a free man in northwest Washington at seventy-five. Based on correspondence, legal documents, and journal entries rarely seen before, this amazing portrait of the times reveals the mores and attitudes toward slavery of the nineteenth century, and sheds new light on famous figures such as James Madison, who believed the white and black populations could not coexist as equals; General Lafayette, who was appalled by this idea; Dolley Madison, who ruthlessly sold Paul after her husband’s death; and many other since-forgotten slaves, abolitionists, and civil right activists. “A portrait of a remarkably willful, ambitious, opportunistic, and in his own way well-connected American. You could also call it the American dream.” —Fortune “A great historical biography.” —Houston Style Magazine “A must-read.” —The Daily Beast “Thorough research . . . an important story of human struggle, determination, and triumph.” —The Dallas Morning News