Author: New York Botanical Garden. Library
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Catalog of the Manuscript and Archival Collections and Index to the Correspondence of John Torrey
Author: New York Botanical Garden. Library
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Baron in the Grand Canyon
Author: Steven W. Rowan
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826219829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer, and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer of the American West. This revealing account concentrates on Egloffstein’s activity in the American mountain West from 1853 to 1858. The early chapters cover his roots as a member of an imperial baronial family in Franconia, his service in the Prussian army, his arrival in the United States in 1846, and his links to his scandalous gothic-novelist cousin, Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein. Egloffstein’s work as a cartographer in St. Louis in the 1840s led to his participation in John C. Frémont’s final expedition to the West in 1853 and 1854. He left Frémont for Salt Lake City where he joined the Gunnison Expedition under the leadership of Edward Beckwith. During this time, Egloffstein produced his most outstanding panoramas and views of the expedition, which were published in Pacific Railroad Reports. Egloffstein also served along with Heinrich Balduin Möllhusen as one of the artists and as the chief cartographer of Joseph Christmas Ives’s expedition up the Colorado River. The two large maps produced by Egloffstein for the expedition report are regarded as classics of American art and cartography in the nineteenth century. While with the Ives expedition, Egloffstein performed his revolutionary experiments in printing photographic images. He developed a procedure for working from photographs of plaster models of terrain, and that led him to invent “heliography,” a method of creating printing plates directly from photographs. He later went on to launch a company to exploit his photographic printing process, which closed after only a few years of operation. Among the many images in this engaging narrative are photographs of the Egloffstein castle and of Egloffstein in 1865 and in his later years. Also include are illustrations that were published in the PRR, such as “View Showing the Formation of the Cañon of Grand River [today called the Gunnison River] / near the Mouth of Lake Fork with Indications of the Formidable Side Cañons” and Beckwith Map 1: “From the Valley of Green River to the Great Salt Lake.”
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826219829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer, and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer of the American West. This revealing account concentrates on Egloffstein’s activity in the American mountain West from 1853 to 1858. The early chapters cover his roots as a member of an imperial baronial family in Franconia, his service in the Prussian army, his arrival in the United States in 1846, and his links to his scandalous gothic-novelist cousin, Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein. Egloffstein’s work as a cartographer in St. Louis in the 1840s led to his participation in John C. Frémont’s final expedition to the West in 1853 and 1854. He left Frémont for Salt Lake City where he joined the Gunnison Expedition under the leadership of Edward Beckwith. During this time, Egloffstein produced his most outstanding panoramas and views of the expedition, which were published in Pacific Railroad Reports. Egloffstein also served along with Heinrich Balduin Möllhusen as one of the artists and as the chief cartographer of Joseph Christmas Ives’s expedition up the Colorado River. The two large maps produced by Egloffstein for the expedition report are regarded as classics of American art and cartography in the nineteenth century. While with the Ives expedition, Egloffstein performed his revolutionary experiments in printing photographic images. He developed a procedure for working from photographs of plaster models of terrain, and that led him to invent “heliography,” a method of creating printing plates directly from photographs. He later went on to launch a company to exploit his photographic printing process, which closed after only a few years of operation. Among the many images in this engaging narrative are photographs of the Egloffstein castle and of Egloffstein in 1865 and in his later years. Also include are illustrations that were published in the PRR, such as “View Showing the Formation of the Cañon of Grand River [today called the Gunnison River] / near the Mouth of Lake Fork with Indications of the Formidable Side Cañons” and Beckwith Map 1: “From the Valley of Green River to the Great Salt Lake.”
Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. 150, 2000)
Author:
Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Publications of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia": v. 53, 1901, p. 788-794.
Dictionary Catalog of the Edward E. Ayer Collection of Americana and American Indians in the Newberry Library
Author: Newberry Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Author: Arnold Arboretum. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Serial publications - Authors and titles
Author: Arnold Arboretum. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Exploring the Great Salt Lake
Author: Brigham D. Madsen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description