The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs

The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs

Author: Henry Gilmer Wilhelm

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13:

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Reference source for the care and preservation of photographs and motion picture film. Evaluates the light fading and dark fading/yellowing characteristics of color transparency films, color negative films, and color photographic papers, with recommendations for the longest-lasting products. High-resolution ink jet, dye sublimation, color electrophotographic, and other digital imaging technologies are discussed, as are conservation matting, mount boards, framing, slide pages, negative and print enclosures, storage boxes, densitometric monitoring of black-and-white and color prints in museum and archive collections, the care of color slide collections, the permanent preservation of color motion pictures, the preservation of cellulose nitrate films, and many other topics.


Building the Workingman's Paradise

Building the Workingman's Paradise

Author: Margaret Crawford

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780860914211

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This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a single site. By 1930 more than two million people lived in such towns, dotted across an industrial frontier which stretched from Lowell, Massachusetts, through Torrance, California to Norris, Tennessee. Margaret Crawford focuses on the transformation of company town construction from the vernacular settlements of the late eighteenth century to the professional designs of architects and planners one hundred and fifty years later. Eschewing a static architectural approach which reads politics, history, and economics through the appearance of buildings, Crawford portrays the successive forms of company towns as the product of a dynamic process, shaped by industrial transformation, class struggle, and reformers' efforts to control and direct these forces.


Factories in the Field

Factories in the Field

Author: Carey McWilliams

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-04-15

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0520925181

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This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions


Humboldt State University

Humboldt State University

Author: Katy M. Tahja

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738580159

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Perched high atop a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the northernmost campus of the California State University system is celebrating its centennial. The natural environment of forests and oceans provide the perfect setting for hands-on research in forestry, oceanography, wildlife, natural resources, environmental science and resource engineering, and fisheries biology. Begun as a normal school for teacher education, it still provides a full range of credential programs and more than 40 majors for undergraduate and master's degrees in 14 areas, and it is a regional center for the arts. The university is at the forefront of studies on sustainability, green living, and environmental responsibility.


The American State Normal School

The American State Normal School

Author: C. Ogren

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-04-30

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1403979103

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The American State Normal School is the first comprehensive history of the state normal schools in the United States. Although nearly two-hundred state colleges and regional universities throughout the U.S. began as 'normal' schools, the institutions themselves have buried their history, and scholars have largely overlooked them. As these institutions later became state colleges and/or regional universities, they distanced themselves from the low status of elementary-literally erasing physical evidence of their normal-school past. In doing so, they buried the rich history of generations of students for whom attending normal school was an enriching, and sometimes life-changing experience. Focusing on these students, the first wave of 'non-traditional' students in higher education, The American State Normal School is a much-needed re-examination of the state normal school.This book was subject of an annual History of Education Society panel for best new books in the field.


American Exodus

American Exodus

Author: James Noble Gregory

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780195071368

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Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal both their economic trials and their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an 'Okie subculture' which is now an essential element of California's cultural landscape.


Cosa IV

Cosa IV

Author: Vincent J. Bruno

Publisher:

Published: 1993-03-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780472106103

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Cosa was a Latin colony founded by Rome in 273 B.C. in territory confiscated from the Etruscan city of Vulci. The fortification walls of the ancient town still dominate the coast some ninety miles north of Rome. The town itself became an agricultural and commercial center, whose trade can be traced in part through a distinctive type of amphora to destinations throughout the Mediterranean world. Cosa's archaeological importance lies in the fact that it provides essential evidence for Roman culture and political organization as they are expressed in structures, and town planning of the republican period, evidence not available in Rome, where republican structures vanished beneath the massive building programs of the imperial age. Cosa IV reports on a group of recently excavated houses between the forum and the Florentine or northwest gate. The volume traces the development of the Roman house, which Frank Brown counts as a major contribution to Roman architecture, from a small urban dwelling of the early colony to the more elaborate houses of the late second and early first centuries B.C., including a Cosan example of the atrium house. The appearance of Cosa IV, and its companion volume on the forum, Cosa III, adds to the importance of the early colony to the field of ancient studies.