Official Guidebook to Omaha and Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition

Official Guidebook to Omaha and Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition

Author: Megeath Stationery Company

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022450080

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A comprehensive and colorful guidebook to the city of Omaha and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898, featuring photographs, maps, and descriptions of key attractions and sites, published by the Megeath Stationery Company. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Official Guide Book to Omaha and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition

Official Guide Book to Omaha and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition

Author: Megeath Stationery Company

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-08

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780428109486

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Excerpt from Official Guide Book to Omaha and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition: Illustrated With Fifty Half-Tone Plates, and Indexed Map of Omaha The only Line passing through the Great Trans Mississippi Exposition Grounds. For time table, information, etc., call or address Company's Offices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899

The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899

Author: Wendy Jean Katz

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1496204360

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The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha's key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on the brink of the Spanish-American War, and the nation's place in bringing "civilization" to Indigenous populations both overseas and at the conclusion of the recent Plains Indian Wars. The Omaha World's Fair, however, is one of the least studied American expositions. Wendy Jean Katz brings together leading scholars to better understand the event's place in the larger history of both Victorian-era America and the American West. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture. Leading scholars T. J. Boisseau, Bonnie M. Miller, Sarah J. Moore, Nancy Parezo, Akim Reinhardt, and Robert Rydell, among others, discuss this often-misunderstood world's fair and its place in the Victorian-era ascension of the United States as a world power.


Unpacking Culture

Unpacking Culture

Author: Ruth B. Phillips

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999-01-30

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780520207974

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"An outstanding set of studies that work well with each other to produce truly substantial and rich insights into the making and consuming of art in the colonial and post-colonial world."—Susan S. Bean, Curator, Peabody Essex Museum


Going Out

Going Out

Author: David Nasaw

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1999-04-15

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0674417593

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David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born and immigrant, rich, poor and middling. Only African Americans were excluded or segregated in the audience, though they were overrepresented in parodic form on stage. This stigmatization of the African American, Nasaw argues, was the glue that cemented an otherwise disparate audience, muting social distinctions among "whites," and creating a common national culture.


Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums

Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums

Author: Mary Trent

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-29

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1000615294

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Through a variety of case studies by global scholars from diverse academic fields, this book explores photographic-album practices of historically marginalized figures from a range of time periods, geographic locations, and socio-cultural contexts. Their albums' stories span various racial, ethnic, gender and sexual identities; nationalities; religions; and dis/abilities. The vernacular albums featured in this volume present narratives that move beyond those reflected in our existing histories. Essays examine the visual, material, and aural strategies that album-makers have used to assert control over the presentation of their histories and identities, and to direct what those narratives have to say, a point of special relevance as these albums move out of private domestic space and into public archives, institutions, and digital formats. This book does not consider photographic albums and scrapbooks as separate genres, but as a continuum of modern creative practices of photographic and mass-print collage aimed at self-expression and narrative-building that co-evolved and were readily accessible. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography, visual culture, material culture, media studies, and cultural studies.


The Machine in the Nursery

The Machine in the Nursery

Author: Jeffrey P. Baker

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780801851735

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To the extent that particular medical specialists in distinct institutions and cultures saw different populations of such infants, they were bound to interpret the incubator's purpose differently. The factors of institutional, professional, and national context - along with that of gender - were of special importance in shaping physicians' attitudes.