Author:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
The Letters of Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674526853
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674526853
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Archive Style
Author: Robin Kelsey
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520420845
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American Indians, geologic features, botanical specimens, and specialists at work in the field. Some of these pictures have long been celebrated for their anticipation of a modernist aesthetic, but Robin Kelsey, in this abundantly illustrated volume, traces their modernistic qualities to archival ingenuity. The technical and promotional needs of surveys, Kelsey argues, fostered the emergence of a taut, graphic pictorial style that imitated the informational clarity of diagrams and maps. As this book demonstrates, these pictures became sites of struggle as well as innovation when three brilliant survey artists and photographers subtly resisted the programs they were hired to serve. Discovering a politics of style behind the modernist look of survey pictures, Kelsey offers a fresh interpretation of canonical western expedition photographs by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and introduces two exceptional but largely forgotten sets of pictures: views of the U.S.-Mexico boundary from the 1850s by Arthur Schott and photographs of the Charleston earthquake of 1886 by C. C. Jones.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520420845
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American Indians, geologic features, botanical specimens, and specialists at work in the field. Some of these pictures have long been celebrated for their anticipation of a modernist aesthetic, but Robin Kelsey, in this abundantly illustrated volume, traces their modernistic qualities to archival ingenuity. The technical and promotional needs of surveys, Kelsey argues, fostered the emergence of a taut, graphic pictorial style that imitated the informational clarity of diagrams and maps. As this book demonstrates, these pictures became sites of struggle as well as innovation when three brilliant survey artists and photographers subtly resisted the programs they were hired to serve. Discovering a politics of style behind the modernist look of survey pictures, Kelsey offers a fresh interpretation of canonical western expedition photographs by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and introduces two exceptional but largely forgotten sets of pictures: views of the U.S.-Mexico boundary from the 1850s by Arthur Schott and photographs of the Charleston earthquake of 1886 by C. C. Jones.
Plants & People
Author:
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Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The House on Tradd Street
Author: Karen White
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 198480216X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The brilliant, chilling debut of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses—and the secret histories inside them. Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog—and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets. Enter Jack Trenholm, a gorgeous writer obsessed with unsolved mysteries. He has reason to believe that diamonds from the Confederate Treasury are hidden in the house. So he turns the charm on with Melanie, only to discover he's the smitten one... It turns out Jack's search has caught the attention of a malevolent ghost. Now, Jack and Melanie must unravel a mystery of passion, heartbreak—and even murder.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 198480216X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The brilliant, chilling debut of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses—and the secret histories inside them. Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog—and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets. Enter Jack Trenholm, a gorgeous writer obsessed with unsolved mysteries. He has reason to believe that diamonds from the Confederate Treasury are hidden in the house. So he turns the charm on with Melanie, only to discover he's the smitten one... It turns out Jack's search has caught the attention of a malevolent ghost. Now, Jack and Melanie must unravel a mystery of passion, heartbreak—and even murder.
The Winterthur Museum Libraries Collection of Printed Books and Periodicals: Rare book catalog. Auction catalogs. Shaker collection
Author: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala
Author: James Bateman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780384035300
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780384035300
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
A Curious Herbal Containing Five Hundred Cuts of the Most Useful Plants which are Now Used in the Practice of Physick Engraved... by Elizabeth Blackwell...
Author: Elizabeth Blackwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Microform & Imaging Review
Author:
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Category : Image processing
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Image processing
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description