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Journal Of The Proceedings Of The United States Centennial Commission At Philadelphia Volume 1
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Book Synopsis Designing the Centennial by : Bruno Giberti
Download or read book Designing the Centennial written by Bruno Giberti and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity—the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the center of this movement was a shift in the perceived relationship between seeing and knowing and in the perception of what makes an object valuable—its usefulness as a subject of study and learning versus its ability to be bought and sold on the market. Arguments over design of the Centennial reflected these opposing viewpoints. Initial plans were rigidly structured, dividing the exhibits by country and type. But as some exhibitors became more interested in the preferences of their audience, they adopted a more modern stance. Objects traditionally displayed in isolated glass boxes were placed in fictive context—the necklace draped over a mannequin, the vase set on a table in a model room. As a result, the audience could more easily perceive these items as commodities suitable for their own environments and the fair as a place to find ideas for a material lifestyle. Designing the Centennial is a vital first look at the design process and the nature of the display. Bruno Giberti uses official reports of the U.S. Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to illuminate how the 1876 fair revealed changes to come: in future world's fairs, museums, department stores, and in the nature of display itself.
Book Synopsis Catalogue by : Michigan State Library
Download or read book Catalogue written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 by : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Download or read book Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mystery and Marvel by : John Henry Hepp
Download or read book Mystery and Marvel written by John Henry Hepp and published by Brookline Books. This book was released on 2024-11-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book on the Centennial in nearly four decades, offering a new insight into this seminal event. The Centennial was America’s first world’s fair, taking place only twenty-five years after the first international exposition in London. The exhibition was a paean to progress by people fascinated by science and technology. The organizers—largely leading Pennsylvania industrialists and merchants—wanted to show the world that the United States was as advanced as any nation in Europe and for the most part their plan succeeded. Everyday Americans attended the fair to be reassured of their nation’s economic and technological past, present, and future. Mystery and Marvel looks at the 1876 Centennial Exposition through the eyes of the ten million visitors to the fair to help us understand the technological enthusiasm of middle-class Victorians. Although this enthusiasm was not unbounded and was occasionally tinged with a combination of nostalgia and uncertainty, overall the women and men of the late nineteenth century were usually happy to be part of a world they thought was as modern and as cutting edge as the one we live in today. In and around the buildings that appeared in the city’s Fairmount Park that spring and summer were the physical embodiments of this culture. The sights, the sounds, and even the smells of the exhibition presaged the coming of a modern America. In 1876 Philadelphia was the nation’s largest manufacturing city and Pennsylvania one of the most important industrial states. The exposition can serve as a wonderful lens to examine America’s shift from the young agricultural republic of 1800 to the industrial empire of 1900.
Book Synopsis Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 by :
Download or read book Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1881-2 by : Michigan State Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1881-2 written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Michigan State Library by : Michigan State Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Michigan State Library written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1879-80 by : Michigan State Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1879-80 written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part by :
Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Museum Catalogue of printed Books by :
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Proceedings of the United States Centennial Commission at Philadelphia. Fourth Session: May, 1873 by : United States Centennial Commission
Download or read book Journal of the Proceedings of the United States Centennial Commission at Philadelphia. Fourth Session: May, 1873 written by United States Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader by : Celia Pearce
Download or read book Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader written by Celia Pearce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world's fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world's fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world's fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world's fair itself.
Download or read book Pharmaceutical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Haven's Civil War Hospital by : Ira Spar, M.D.
Download or read book New Haven's Civil War Hospital written by Ira Spar, M.D. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Civil War's toll mounted, an antiquated medical system faced a deluge of sick and wounded soldiers. In response, the United States created a national care system primarily funded and regulated by the federal government. When New Haven, Connecticut, was chosen as the site for a new military hospital, Pliny Adams Jewett, next in line to become chief of surgery at Yale, sacrificed his private practice and eventually his future in New Haven to serve as chief of staff of the new thousand-bed Knight U.S. General Hospital. The "War Governor," William Buckingham, personally financed hospital construction while supporting needy soldiers and their families. He appointed state agents to scour battlefields and hospitals to ensure his state's soldiers got the best care while encouraging their transfer to the hospital in New Haven. This history of the hospital's construction and operation during the war discusses the state of medicine at the time as well as the administrative side of providing care to sick and wounded soldiers.
Book Synopsis A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881 by : Benjamin Perley Poore
Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881 written by Benjamin Perley Poore and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nation and Commemoration by : Lyn Spillman
Download or read book Nation and Commemoration written by Lyn Spillman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do people think when they imagine themselves as part of a nation? Nation and Commemoration answers this question in an exploration of the creation and recreation of national identities through commemorative activities. Extending recent work in cultural sociology and history, Lyn Spillman compares centennial and bicentennial celebrations in the United States and Australia to show how national identities can emerge from processes of 'cultural production'. She systematically analyses the symbols and meanings of national identity in these two 'new nations', identifying changes and continuities, similarities and differences in how visions of history, place in the world, politics, land, and diversity have been used to express nationhood. The result is a deeper understanding, not only of American and Australian national identities, but also of the global process of nation-formation.
Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 2316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
