Author: Robert Gordon Latham
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Category : Botanical museums
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Crystal Palace
Author: John McKean
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714829258
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century. Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omit references to the past. Amid the historicist debates and battle of the styles of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational and straightforward.
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714829258
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century. Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omit references to the past. Amid the historicist debates and battle of the styles of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational and straightforward.
Catalogue of books in the general library and in the South library
Author: London univ, univ. coll, libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
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The Crystal Palace Penny Guide
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ...
Author: British Museum (Natural History). Library
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Category : Natural History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : Natural History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Military Academy. By George Bullen
Author: Great Britain. Army. Educational and Training Establishments. Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 954
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Index to the catalogue of books in the upper hall
Author: Boston Mass, publ. libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described
Author: Robert Gordon Latham
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ISBN: 9781906267223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Crystal Palace Company published a series of official handbooks in 1854 for displays in its Sydenham pleasure park. The "Natural History Court" had two organising themes. First, ethnology was a new discipline in the 1850s. Displays included material from thirteen exotic human groups. (Sometimes, they also included living visitors from those groups). Latham's guide emphasises what visitors could not see displayed, such as language and religious practices. He also shows his discipline's obsession with rankings - one culture against another - together with the cultural biases inherent in their work. Second, zoology and botany were represented by regional displays. Forbes was a naturalist in the tradition of Alexander von Humboldt. This catalogue mentions most of the specimens displayed. It also stresses fundamental principles of biogeography. Written five years before Darwin's Origin of Species, Forbes' essay nicely shows how naturalists theorized before evolutionary ideas took hold.
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ISBN: 9781906267223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Crystal Palace Company published a series of official handbooks in 1854 for displays in its Sydenham pleasure park. The "Natural History Court" had two organising themes. First, ethnology was a new discipline in the 1850s. Displays included material from thirteen exotic human groups. (Sometimes, they also included living visitors from those groups). Latham's guide emphasises what visitors could not see displayed, such as language and religious practices. He also shows his discipline's obsession with rankings - one culture against another - together with the cultural biases inherent in their work. Second, zoology and botany were represented by regional displays. Forbes was a naturalist in the tradition of Alexander von Humboldt. This catalogue mentions most of the specimens displayed. It also stresses fundamental principles of biogeography. Written five years before Darwin's Origin of Species, Forbes' essay nicely shows how naturalists theorized before evolutionary ideas took hold.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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