Author: Anastasia Louise Pratt
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467160237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Covering more than 8,000 squares miles and spanning the roughly triangular area between Quebec; Dorset, Vermont; and Glens Falls, New York, the Champlain Valley has a rich heritage celebrated in hundreds of historical markers, monuments, mosaics, murals, and photographs. Although human inhabitation of the region began 10,000 years ago, these monuments to the past are considerably newer, with the earliest among them recognizing the European colonizers and settlers who followed Samuel de Champlain to the shores of Lake Champlain beginning in the 17th century. By the 18th century, the entire region was populated by villages, towns, and cities, all placed against the backdrop of the surrounding Adirondacks and Green Mountains and finding life in the network of rivers and fertile valleys of the Lake Champlain Basin. This collection brings together images from throughout the Champlain Valley, offering a vision of life and the ways markers celebrate local memories and ancestors.
Lake Champlain Monuments and Memorials
Author: Anastasia Louise Pratt
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467160237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Covering more than 8,000 squares miles and spanning the roughly triangular area between Quebec; Dorset, Vermont; and Glens Falls, New York, the Champlain Valley has a rich heritage celebrated in hundreds of historical markers, monuments, mosaics, murals, and photographs. Although human inhabitation of the region began 10,000 years ago, these monuments to the past are considerably newer, with the earliest among them recognizing the European colonizers and settlers who followed Samuel de Champlain to the shores of Lake Champlain beginning in the 17th century. By the 18th century, the entire region was populated by villages, towns, and cities, all placed against the backdrop of the surrounding Adirondacks and Green Mountains and finding life in the network of rivers and fertile valleys of the Lake Champlain Basin. This collection brings together images from throughout the Champlain Valley, offering a vision of life and the ways markers celebrate local memories and ancestors.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467160237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Covering more than 8,000 squares miles and spanning the roughly triangular area between Quebec; Dorset, Vermont; and Glens Falls, New York, the Champlain Valley has a rich heritage celebrated in hundreds of historical markers, monuments, mosaics, murals, and photographs. Although human inhabitation of the region began 10,000 years ago, these monuments to the past are considerably newer, with the earliest among them recognizing the European colonizers and settlers who followed Samuel de Champlain to the shores of Lake Champlain beginning in the 17th century. By the 18th century, the entire region was populated by villages, towns, and cities, all placed against the backdrop of the surrounding Adirondacks and Green Mountains and finding life in the network of rivers and fertile valleys of the Lake Champlain Basin. This collection brings together images from throughout the Champlain Valley, offering a vision of life and the ways markers celebrate local memories and ancestors.
Orations and memorial addresses
Author: Chauncey Mitchell Depew
Publisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Tercentenary Celebration of the Discovery of Lake Champlain and Vermont
Author: Vermont. Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Champlain tercentenary celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Champlain tercentenary celebrations
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Nation's First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition
Author: Sally Webster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351542028
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The commemorative tradition in early American art is given sustained consideration for the first time in Sally Webster's study of public monuments and the construction of an American patronymic tradition. Until now, no attempt has been made to create a coherent early history of the carved symbolic language of American liberty and independence. Establishing as the basis of her discussion the fledgling nation's first monument, Jean-Jacques Caffi?'s Monument to General Richard Montgomery (commissioned in January of 1776), Webster builds on the themes of commemoration and national patrimony, ultimately positing that like its instruments of government, America drew from the Enlightenment and its reverence for the classical past. Webster's study is grounded in the political and social worlds of New York City, moving chronologically from the 1760s to the 1790s, with a concluding chapter considering the monument, which lies just east of Ground Zero, against the backdrop of 9/11. It is an original contribution to historical scholarship in fields ranging from early American art, sculpture, New York history, and the Revolutionary era. A chapter is devoted to the exceptional role of Benjamin Franklin in the commissioning and design of the monument. Webster's study provides a new focus on New York City as the 18th-century city in which the European tradition of public commemoration was reconstituted as monuments to liberty's heroes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351542028
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The commemorative tradition in early American art is given sustained consideration for the first time in Sally Webster's study of public monuments and the construction of an American patronymic tradition. Until now, no attempt has been made to create a coherent early history of the carved symbolic language of American liberty and independence. Establishing as the basis of her discussion the fledgling nation's first monument, Jean-Jacques Caffi?'s Monument to General Richard Montgomery (commissioned in January of 1776), Webster builds on the themes of commemoration and national patrimony, ultimately positing that like its instruments of government, America drew from the Enlightenment and its reverence for the classical past. Webster's study is grounded in the political and social worlds of New York City, moving chronologically from the 1760s to the 1790s, with a concluding chapter considering the monument, which lies just east of Ground Zero, against the backdrop of 9/11. It is an original contribution to historical scholarship in fields ranging from early American art, sculpture, New York history, and the Revolutionary era. A chapter is devoted to the exceptional role of Benjamin Franklin in the commissioning and design of the monument. Webster's study provides a new focus on New York City as the 18th-century city in which the European tradition of public commemoration was reconstituted as monuments to liberty's heroes.
Modern Cemetery
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York
Author: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Report
Author: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Legislative Document
Author: New York (State). Legislature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
New York Legislative Documents
Author: New York (State). Legislature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description