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Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Crofutt's Trans-continental Tourist's Guide ...
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Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Publisher:
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Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Great Trans-continental Tourists Guide
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Crofutt's Trans-continental Tourist ...
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Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Crofutt's trans-continental tourist's guide. 5th vol., 4th annual revise
Author: George A. Crofutt
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Williams' Pacific Tourist and Guide Across the Continent
Author: Henry T. Williams
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Great Trans-continental Railroad Guide, Containing a Full and Authentic Description of Over Five Hundred Mountains, Lakes, Rivers, Sulfur, Soda and Hot Springs, Scenery, Watering Places, Summer Resorts ...
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Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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American Guides
Author: Wendy Griswold
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635797X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers’ Project. The Project’s mission was simple: jobs. But, as Wendy Griswold shows in the lively and persuasive American Guides, the Project had a profound—and unintended—cultural impact that went far beyond the writers’ paychecks. Griswold’s subject here is the Project’s American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. Griswold finds that the series unintentionally diversified American literary culture’s cast of characters—promoting women, minority, and rural writers—while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes. Griswold’s story alters our customary ideas about cultural change as a gradual process, revealing how diversity is often the result of politically strategic decisions and bureaucratic logic, as well as of the conflicts between snobbish metropolitan intellectuals and stubborn locals. American Guides reveals the significance of cultural federalism and the indelible impact that the Federal Writers’ Project continues to have on the American literary landscape.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635797X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers’ Project. The Project’s mission was simple: jobs. But, as Wendy Griswold shows in the lively and persuasive American Guides, the Project had a profound—and unintended—cultural impact that went far beyond the writers’ paychecks. Griswold’s subject here is the Project’s American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. Griswold finds that the series unintentionally diversified American literary culture’s cast of characters—promoting women, minority, and rural writers—while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes. Griswold’s story alters our customary ideas about cultural change as a gradual process, revealing how diversity is often the result of politically strategic decisions and bureaucratic logic, as well as of the conflicts between snobbish metropolitan intellectuals and stubborn locals. American Guides reveals the significance of cultural federalism and the indelible impact that the Federal Writers’ Project continues to have on the American literary landscape.
The Pacific Tourist
Author: Frederic Eichelberger Shearer
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Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : Railroad travel
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Landscape in American Guides and View Books
Author: Herbert Gottfried
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739176080
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Landscape in American Guides and View Books: Visual History of Touring and Travel is vested in the American relationship to landscape and the role guidebooks and view books played in touring and travel experiences, including immigration. Early in the history of the republic, the relationship to landscape turns visual, that is, landscapes inspire artistic responses in the form of written descriptions and visual representations. The predominant element is the scene. From the 1820s on scenic thinking, within an emerging industrial economy, characterizes a major cultural and social development. As immigration increases, within the country and from abroad, publishers and trade groups create souvenir guidebooks and view books to facilitate the movement of people, and to encourage economic expansion and tourism. Guide and view book analysis centers on pictures of landscape transformations and includes the cultural basis of scenes changing from pastoral and picturesque expressions to the documentation of managed views. The general acceptance of managed views as replacements for romantic ones illustrates a commitment to landscapes that denote utility and the influence of commercial and industrial urban centers on American life. Guidebook and view book imagery, composed of durable schemas, promotes visual thinking across social classes and time. The primary medium for souvenirs is the photograph, which printing methods, like photolithography, transform into printed products. The visual history of touring and travel is part of America's first visual culture, as well as the social formation of landscape, the emergence of a collective vision among souvenir producers and consumers, and the role visual information plays in landscape commentary, which is the literary context for printed souvenirs.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739176080
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Landscape in American Guides and View Books: Visual History of Touring and Travel is vested in the American relationship to landscape and the role guidebooks and view books played in touring and travel experiences, including immigration. Early in the history of the republic, the relationship to landscape turns visual, that is, landscapes inspire artistic responses in the form of written descriptions and visual representations. The predominant element is the scene. From the 1820s on scenic thinking, within an emerging industrial economy, characterizes a major cultural and social development. As immigration increases, within the country and from abroad, publishers and trade groups create souvenir guidebooks and view books to facilitate the movement of people, and to encourage economic expansion and tourism. Guide and view book analysis centers on pictures of landscape transformations and includes the cultural basis of scenes changing from pastoral and picturesque expressions to the documentation of managed views. The general acceptance of managed views as replacements for romantic ones illustrates a commitment to landscapes that denote utility and the influence of commercial and industrial urban centers on American life. Guidebook and view book imagery, composed of durable schemas, promotes visual thinking across social classes and time. The primary medium for souvenirs is the photograph, which printing methods, like photolithography, transform into printed products. The visual history of touring and travel is part of America's first visual culture, as well as the social formation of landscape, the emergence of a collective vision among souvenir producers and consumers, and the role visual information plays in landscape commentary, which is the literary context for printed souvenirs.
Crofutt's Trans-continental Tourist's Guide
Author:
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Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A guidebook for the American West highlighting notable attractions and spaces.
Publisher:
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Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A guidebook for the American West highlighting notable attractions and spaces.