Author: William C. Tweed
Publisher:
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Recreation Site Planning and Improvement in National Forests, 1891-1942
Author: William C. Tweed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Recreation Site Planning and Improvement in National Forests, 1891-1942
Author: William C. Tweed
Publisher:
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Building the National Parks
Author: Linda Flint McClelland
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801855832
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt, who realized the need to improve intelligence during wartime. A rigorous recruitment process enlisted agents from both the armed services and civilians to produce operational groups specializing in different foreign areas including Italy, Norway, Yugoslavia and China. At its peak in 1944, the number of men and women working in the service totaled nearly 13,500. This intriguing story of the origins and development of the American espionage forces covers all of the different departments involved, with a particular emphasis on the courageous teams operating in the field. The volume is illustrated with many photographs, including images from the film director John Ford who led the OSS Photographic Unit and parachuted into Burma in 1943.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801855832
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt, who realized the need to improve intelligence during wartime. A rigorous recruitment process enlisted agents from both the armed services and civilians to produce operational groups specializing in different foreign areas including Italy, Norway, Yugoslavia and China. At its peak in 1944, the number of men and women working in the service totaled nearly 13,500. This intriguing story of the origins and development of the American espionage forces covers all of the different departments involved, with a particular emphasis on the courageous teams operating in the field. The volume is illustrated with many photographs, including images from the film director John Ford who led the OSS Photographic Unit and parachuted into Burma in 1943.
Wilderness by Design
Author: Ethan Carr
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803263833
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803263833
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.
The Log Cabin
Author: Alison K. Hoagland
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813940877
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
For roughly a century, the log cabin occupied a central and indispensable role in the rapidly growing United States. Although it largely disappeared as a living space, it lived on as a symbol of the settling of the nation. In her thought-provoking and generously illustrated new book, Alison Hoagland looks at this once-common dwelling as a practical shelter solution--easy to construct, built on the frontier’s abundance of trees, and not necessarily meant to be permanent--and its evolving place in the public memory. Hoagland shows how the log cabin was a uniquely adaptable symbol, responsive to the needs of the cultural moment. It served as the noble birthplace of presidents, but it was also seen as the basest form of housing, accommodating the lowly poor. It functioned as a paragon of domesticity, but it was also a basic element in the life of striving and wandering. Held up as a triumph of westward expansion, it was also perceived as a building type to be discarded in favor of more civilized forms. In the twentieth century, the log cabin became ingrained in popular culture, serving as second homes and motels, as well as restaurants and shops striking a rustic note. The romantic view of the past, combined with the log cabin’s simplicity, solidity, and compatibility with nature, has made it an enduring architectural and cultural icon. Preparation of this volume has been supported by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813940877
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
For roughly a century, the log cabin occupied a central and indispensable role in the rapidly growing United States. Although it largely disappeared as a living space, it lived on as a symbol of the settling of the nation. In her thought-provoking and generously illustrated new book, Alison Hoagland looks at this once-common dwelling as a practical shelter solution--easy to construct, built on the frontier’s abundance of trees, and not necessarily meant to be permanent--and its evolving place in the public memory. Hoagland shows how the log cabin was a uniquely adaptable symbol, responsive to the needs of the cultural moment. It served as the noble birthplace of presidents, but it was also seen as the basest form of housing, accommodating the lowly poor. It functioned as a paragon of domesticity, but it was also a basic element in the life of striving and wandering. Held up as a triumph of westward expansion, it was also perceived as a building type to be discarded in favor of more civilized forms. In the twentieth century, the log cabin became ingrained in popular culture, serving as second homes and motels, as well as restaurants and shops striking a rustic note. The romantic view of the past, combined with the log cabin’s simplicity, solidity, and compatibility with nature, has made it an enduring architectural and cultural icon. Preparation of this volume has been supported by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
Collecting Nature
Author: Andrew G. Kirk
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Finds in the history of Denver's Conservation Library a microcosm of the growth of the environmental movement as a whole.
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Finds in the history of Denver's Conservation Library a microcosm of the growth of the environmental movement as a whole.
Timber and the Forest Service
Author: David A. Clary
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Guide to the Curation of Forest Service Administrative History Artifacts and Records
Author: Terry L. West
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description