Author:
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).
City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901
Author:
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).
Cities on the Plains
Author: James R. Shortridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
"Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
"Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--BOOK JACKET.
Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide
Author: Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804740579
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804740579
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Bibliography of American Directories Through 1860
Author: Dorothea N. Spear
Publisher: Worcester, Ma. : American Antiquarian Society
ISBN:
Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher: Worcester, Ma. : American Antiquarian Society
ISBN:
Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Sales
Author: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Kansas Territory and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush
Author: Calvin W. Gower
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Wagonmasters
Author: Henry Pickering Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Lincoln Lore
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description