Colour Photography
Author: Brian Coe
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
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From Skisport to Skiing
Author: E. John B. Allen
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1996-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558490475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text examines the history of skiing in America, from its utilitarian origins to its transformation into a purely recreational activity. It integrates the history of skiing in the context of cultural, social and economic developments.
Partners with the Sun
Author: Harvey S. Teal
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781570033841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work recounts the history of the men and women who captured a century of South Carolina images, from photography's introduction in the state through to 1940.
French Immigrants, 1840-1940
Author: Kay Melchisedech Olson
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2002-06
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 0736812059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the reasons French people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences the immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.
A Folk Divided
Author: Hildor Arnold Barton
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780809319435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"What happens to a people ... when it becomes divided and separated through a great overseas migration? ... how do the two parts of such a divided people relate to each other? What ideas do they have regarding each other as the process continues and as time and circumstance cause them to develop in separate ways of their own? The purpose of this book is to seek answers to such questions in the case of the Swedes during the period of their great migration, between roughly 1840 and 1940." -- Pref.
Silver in America
Author: Charles L. Venable
Publisher:
Published: 1995-02
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the history and development of the American silver industry. It chronicles the work of firms such as Tiffany, Gorham, Meridan Britannia, and Reed and Barton, along with that of makers such as Whiting, Wendt, Wood and Hughs, Scheibler, and Gale.
Australian Women Artists, 1840-1940
Author: Janine Burke
Publisher: Greenhouse Publishing Company
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoy Hester - Thea Proctor - Ethel Spowers - Edith Holmes - Grace Crowley - Nora Heysen - Clarice Beckett - Grace Cossington Smith - Hilda Rix Nicholas.
Freak Show
Author: Robert Bogdan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-12-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 022622743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.
Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940
Author: Angelos Dalachanis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-13
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 9004375740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, they revisit the holy city of three religions, which has often been defined solely as an eternal battlefield and studied exclusively through the prism of geopolitics and religion. At the core of their analysis are topics and issues developed by the European Research Council-funded project “Opening Jerusalem Archives: For a Connected History of Citadinité in the Holy City, 1840–1940.” Drawn from the French vocabulary of geography and urban sociology, the concept of citadinité describes the dynamic identity relationship a city’s inhabitants develop with each other and with their urban environment.
Along the Great South Bay (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Harry W. Havemeyer
Publisher:
Published: 2014-12-01
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9780990787006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly twenty years after it was first published, Along the Great South Bay continues to be the definitive source of Great South Bay history, recounting a century in which New York's most affluent families came to enjoy the cool summer breezes of the Atlantic Ocean and the boating, fishing, and bird shooting for which the area was renowned. Newly released in paperback as an illustrated edition, Along the Great South Bay now includes 182 photographs and maps, bringing back to life the tantalizing tale of an era long gone, but no longer forgotten.
