Views and Viewmakers of Urban America
Title | Views and Viewmakers of Urban America PDF eBook |
Author | John William Reps |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN | 0826204163 |
Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
An Indispensable Resource by John W. Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America
Title | An Indispensable Resource by John W. Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America PDF eBook |
Author | University of Missouri Press |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 1983* |
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Views and Viewmakers of Urban America
Title | Views and Viewmakers of Urban America PDF eBook |
Author | John William Reps |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Canada |
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City Life, 1885-1900. Views of Urban America
Title | City Life, 1885-1900. Views of Urban America PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Cook |
Publisher | |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 1973 |
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Mapping Wonderlands
Title | Mapping Wonderlands PDF eBook |
Author | Dori Griffin |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0816599912 |
Though tourism now plays a recognized role in historical research and regional studies, the study of popular touristic images remains sidelined by chronological histories and objective statistics. Further, Arizona remains underexplored as an early twentieth-century tourism destination when compared with nearby California and New Mexico. With the notable exception of the Grand Canyon, little has been written about tourism in the early days of Arizona’s statehood. Mapping Wonderlands fills part of this gap in existing regional studies by looking at early popular pictorial maps of Arizona. These cartographic representations of the state utilize formal mapmaking conventions to create a place-based state history. They introduce illustrations, unique naming conventions, and written narratives to create carefully visualized landscapes that emphasize the touristic aspects of Arizona. Analyzing the visual culture of tourism in illuminating detail, this book documents how Arizona came to be identified as an appealing tourism destination. Providing a historically situated analysis, Dori Griffin draws on samples from a comprehensive collection of materials generated to promote tourism during Arizona’s first half-century of statehood. She investigates the relationship between natural and constructed landscapes, visual culture, and narratives of place. Featuring sixty-six examples of these aesthetically appealing maps, the book details how such maps offered tourists and other users a cohesive and storied image of the state. Using historical documentation and rhetorical analysis, this book combines visual design and historical narrative to reveal how early-twentieth-century mapmakers and map users collaborated to imagine Arizona as a tourist’s paradise.
Philadelphia on Stone
Title | Philadelphia on Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Erika Piola |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 027105252X |
"A collection of essays examining the history of nineteenth-century commercial lithography in Philadelphia. Analyzes the social, economic, and technological changes in the local trade from 1828 to 1878"--Provided by publisher.
Here and Everywhere Else
Title | Here and Everywhere Else PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Witmer |
Publisher | UMass + ORM |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2022-06-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 161376944X |
Winner of an Award of Excellence, American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) In 1822, settlers pushed north from Massachusetts and other parts of New England into Monson, Maine. On land taken from the Penobscot people, they established prosperous farms and businesses. Focusing on the microhistory of this village, Andrew Witmer reveals the sometimes surprising ways that this small New England town engaged with the wider world across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Townspeople fought and died in distant wars, transformed the economy and landscape with quarries and mills, and used railroads, highways, print, and new technologies to forge connections with the rest of the nation. Here and Everywhere Else starts with Monson’s incorporation in the early nineteenth century, when central Maine was considered the northern frontier and over 90 percent of Americans still lived in rural areas; it ends with present-day attempts to revive this declining Maine town into an artists’ colony. Engagingly written, with colorful portraits of local characters and landmarks, this study illustrates how the residents of this remote place have remade their town by integrating (and resisting) external influences.