Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0938021362
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
History and Families, McCracken County, Kentucky, 1824-1989
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0938021362
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0938021362
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company
Author: Michael Burden
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830–1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, tenor William Harrison, hired Reiff, then freelancing in New York, to serve as musical director and conductor for the company’s American itinerary. The grueling tour began in November 1855 in Boston and then proceeded to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, where, after a three-week engagement, the company boarded a paddle steamer bound for New Orleans. It was at that point that Reiff started to keep his diary. Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Reiff’s diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled the country by river and rail. Surprisingly, Reiff comments little on the Pyne-Harrison performances themselves, although he does visit the theaters in the river towns, including New Orleans, where he spends evenings both at the French Opera and at the Gaiety. Instead, Reiff focuses his attention on other passengers, on the mechanics of the journey, on the landscape, and on events he encounters, including the 1856 Mardi Gras and the unveiling of the statue of Andrew Jackson in New Orleans's Jackson Square. Reiff is clearly captivated by the river towns and their residents, including the enslaved, whom he encountered whenever the boat tied up. Running throughout the journal is a thread of anxiety, for, apart from the typical dangers of a river trip, the winter of 1855–1856 was one of the coldest of the century, and the steamer had difficulties with river ice. Historians have used Reiff’s journal as source material, but until now the entire text, which is archived in Louisiana State University’s Special Collections in Hill Memorial Library, has only been available in its original state. As a primary source, the published journal will have broad appeal to historians and other readers interested in antebellum riverboat travel, highbrow entertainment, and the people and places of the South.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830–1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, tenor William Harrison, hired Reiff, then freelancing in New York, to serve as musical director and conductor for the company’s American itinerary. The grueling tour began in November 1855 in Boston and then proceeded to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, where, after a three-week engagement, the company boarded a paddle steamer bound for New Orleans. It was at that point that Reiff started to keep his diary. Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Reiff’s diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled the country by river and rail. Surprisingly, Reiff comments little on the Pyne-Harrison performances themselves, although he does visit the theaters in the river towns, including New Orleans, where he spends evenings both at the French Opera and at the Gaiety. Instead, Reiff focuses his attention on other passengers, on the mechanics of the journey, on the landscape, and on events he encounters, including the 1856 Mardi Gras and the unveiling of the statue of Andrew Jackson in New Orleans's Jackson Square. Reiff is clearly captivated by the river towns and their residents, including the enslaved, whom he encountered whenever the boat tied up. Running throughout the journal is a thread of anxiety, for, apart from the typical dangers of a river trip, the winter of 1855–1856 was one of the coldest of the century, and the steamer had difficulties with river ice. Historians have used Reiff’s journal as source material, but until now the entire text, which is archived in Louisiana State University’s Special Collections in Hill Memorial Library, has only been available in its original state. As a primary source, the published journal will have broad appeal to historians and other readers interested in antebellum riverboat travel, highbrow entertainment, and the people and places of the South.
McCracken County, Kentucky, Marriages, 1824-1850
Author: Researchers (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
McCracken County, Kentucky, Marriages, 1824-1852
Author: Annie Walker Burns Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
NGS Newsletter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
McCracken County, Kentucky Marriages, 1824-1851
Author: Annie Walker Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
McCracken County, Kentucky
Author: J. H. Battle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Record of Marriages in McCracken County, Kentucky, for the Period of Years 1824 to 1851 ...
Author: Annie Walker Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : McCracken County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : McCracken County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
McCracken County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1824-1851
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
McCracken County, Ky., Tax Lists, 1824-1836
Author: Don Simmons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : McCracken County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : McCracken County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description