The Birds of America
Title | The Birds of America PDF eBook |
Author | John James Audubon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1842 |
Genre | Birds |
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This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
The Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens
Title | The Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Art museums |
ISBN | 9780873282703 |
Nineteen Nineteen
Title | Nineteen Nineteen PDF eBook |
Author | James Glisson |
Publisher | Huntington Library Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Nineteen nineteen, A.D. |
ISBN | 9780873282680 |
Race riots. Labor strikes. Women's battle for the vote. The aftermath of the Great War. The transformative events and harsh realities of the year 1919 still reverberate a century later. Nineteen Nineteen, published to accompany a centennial exhibition of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, explores the institution and its founding through the lens of this single, tumultuous year. The fully illustrated catalog features works from The Huntington's vast collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and art, many of them never exhibited or published before.
The Huntington
Title | The Huntington PDF eBook |
Author | Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery |
Publisher | Huntington Library Press |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
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The treasures of the Huntington—literary, historic, artistic, and botanical—are captured in this beautiful volume. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 130 full-color photographs and containing a wealth of information about the collections, the book is both a pictorial treat and a fascinating resource for anyone wanting to learn more about the Huntington.
Flower Children
Title | Flower Children PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Gordon |
Publisher | Applewood Books |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2008-02-29 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1557090866 |
Published originally in 1910, this charming collection of flower poems and full-color illustrations animates the 82 flowers included in the book. From Crocus to Holly, the flowers are ordered in the book as each would appear throughout the year in a garden. Each illustration is half child and half flower, creating a wonderful way for children to see themselves in the natural world.
Kehinde Wiley
Title | Kehinde Wiley PDF eBook |
Author | Melinda McCurdy |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781646570201 |
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: a portrait of a young gentleman, organized by the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Malik Gaines investigates the artist's post-modern strategy of inserting Black subjects into canonical European settings. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell situates Wiley's work within the traditions and trappings of grand manner eighteenth-century portraiture"--
The Rise of the Latino Vote
Title | The Rise of the Latino Vote PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Francis-Fallon |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2019-09-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 067473744X |
A new history reveals how the rise of the Latino vote has redrawn the political map and what it portends for the future of American politics. The impact of the Latino vote is a constant subject of debate among pundits and scholars. Will it sway elections? And how will the political parties respond to the growing number of voters who identify as Latino? A more basic and revealing question, though, is how the Latino vote was forged—how U.S. voters with roots in Latin America came to be understood as a bloc with shared interests. In The Rise of the Latino Vote, Benjamin Francis-Fallon shows how this diverse group of voters devised a common political identity and how the rise of the Latino voter has transformed the electoral landscape. Latino political power is a recent phenomenon. It emerged on the national scene during the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s, when Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American activists, alongside leaders in both the Democratic and the Republican parties, began to conceive and popularize a pan-ethnic Hispanic identity. Despite the increasing political potential of a unified Latino vote, many individual voters continued to affiliate more with their particular ethnic communities than with a broader Latino constituency. The search to resolve this contradiction continues to animate efforts to mobilize Hispanic voters and define their influence on the American political system. The “Spanish-speaking vote” was constructed through deliberate action; it was not simply demographic growth that led the government to recognize Hispanics as a national minority group, ushering in a new era of multicultural politics. As we ponder how a new generation of Latino voters will shape America’s future, Francis-Fallon uncovers the historical forces behind the changing face of America.