Author: Scott and O'Shaughnessy
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Author: Scott and O'Shaughnessy
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Manifest Destinations
Author: J. Philip Gruen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Tourists started visiting the American West in sizable numbers after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were completed in 1869. Contemporary travel brochures and guidebooks of the 1870s sold tourists on the spectacular scenery of the West, and depicted its cities as extensions of the natural landscape—as well as places where efficient business operations and architectural grandeur prevailed—all now easily accessible thanks to the relative comfort of transcontinental rail travel. Yet as people flocked to western cities, it was the everyday life that captured their interest—the new technologies, incessant clatter, and all the upheaval of modern metropolises. In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them. Guidebooks made Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco seem like picturesque environments sprinkled with civilized buildings and refined people. But Gruen’s research in diaries, letters, and traveler narratives shows that tourists were interested—as tourists usually are—in the unexpected encounters that characterize city life. Visitors relished the cities’ unfamiliar storefronts and advertising, public transit systems, ethnic diversity, and multiple dwellings in all their urban messiness. They thrust themselves into the noise, danger, and cacophony. Western cities did not always live up to the marketing strategies of guidebooks, but the western cities’ fast pace and many novelties held extraordinary appeal to visitors from the East Coast and abroad. In recounting lively anecdotes, and by focusing on tourist perceptions of everyday life in western cities, Gruen shows how these cities developed the economy of tourism to eventually encompass both the urban and the natural West.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147318
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Tourists started visiting the American West in sizable numbers after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were completed in 1869. Contemporary travel brochures and guidebooks of the 1870s sold tourists on the spectacular scenery of the West, and depicted its cities as extensions of the natural landscape—as well as places where efficient business operations and architectural grandeur prevailed—all now easily accessible thanks to the relative comfort of transcontinental rail travel. Yet as people flocked to western cities, it was the everyday life that captured their interest—the new technologies, incessant clatter, and all the upheaval of modern metropolises. In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them. Guidebooks made Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco seem like picturesque environments sprinkled with civilized buildings and refined people. But Gruen’s research in diaries, letters, and traveler narratives shows that tourists were interested—as tourists usually are—in the unexpected encounters that characterize city life. Visitors relished the cities’ unfamiliar storefronts and advertising, public transit systems, ethnic diversity, and multiple dwellings in all their urban messiness. They thrust themselves into the noise, danger, and cacophony. Western cities did not always live up to the marketing strategies of guidebooks, but the western cities’ fast pace and many novelties held extraordinary appeal to visitors from the East Coast and abroad. In recounting lively anecdotes, and by focusing on tourist perceptions of everyday life in western cities, Gruen shows how these cities developed the economy of tourism to eventually encompass both the urban and the natural West.
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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List of Books by Wisconsin Authors Exhibited by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in the Wisconsin State Building
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Catalogue of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: First [to fifth] supplements. [Additions from 1873-1887
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.
The Genealogist's Virtual Library
Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
ISBN: 9780842028646
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The growing availability of full-text books and journals on the Internet has made vast amounts of valuable genealogical information available at the touch of a button. The Genealogist's Virtual Library is a new volume that directs readers to the sites on the web that contain the full text of books.
Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
ISBN: 9780842028646
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The growing availability of full-text books and journals on the Internet has made vast amounts of valuable genealogical information available at the touch of a button. The Genealogist's Virtual Library is a new volume that directs readers to the sites on the web that contain the full text of books.
American Book Prices Current
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
The Important American Library Formed by Dr. William C. Braislin, Sold by His Order ...
Author: William Coughlin Braislin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Bibliography of Wisconsin Authors
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Catalogue
Author:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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