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Book Synopsis The Lost Panoramas of the Mississippi by : John Francis McDermott
Download or read book The Lost Panoramas of the Mississippi written by John Francis McDermott and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The panorama was a ... newsreel travelogue documentary 'movie' all rolled into one long, long, pictorial canvas between two slowly revolving cylinders ... [to the] acccompaniment of explanatory narration by the panoramist, passed the great river, its banks and bluffs, its steamers and squatters' shacks, its hamlets and cities, from St. Paul to New Orleans." Dust jacket.
Book Synopsis Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River by : John Banvard
Download or read book Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River written by John Banvard and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Banvard (1815 - 1891) was a famous American painter. He is best known for his panoramic views of the Mississippi River Valley. The description of his panorama was first published in 1847.
Book Synopsis Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River, Painted on Three Miles of Canvas (1847) by : John Banvard
Download or read book Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River, Painted on Three Miles of Canvas (1847) written by John Banvard and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1847 Edition.
Book Synopsis Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River, Painted on Three Miles of Canvas by : Banvard John
Download or read book Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River, Painted on Three Miles of Canvas written by Banvard John and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Mississippi Panorama by : City Art Museum of St. Louis
Download or read book Mississippi Panorama written by City Art Museum of St. Louis and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River by : John Banvard
Download or read book Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River written by John Banvard and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mississippi River Panorama by : William John Petersen
Download or read book Mississippi River Panorama written by William John Petersen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mark Twain's Mississippi River by : R. Kent Rasmussen
Download or read book Mark Twain's Mississippi River written by R. Kent Rasmussen and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCombine the wild waters of the Mississippi River and wordsmith Mark Twain, and what have you got? Some of the most famous and familiar literary works in American history, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Gilded Age, and Life on the Mississippi. Twain spent the first half of his life on and around the river, from his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, to his years as a steamboat pilot, during which he traveled up and down the river as far south as New Orleans./divDIV/divDIVCommemorating one of America’s most beloved authors and the landscape he portrayed in his works, Mark Twain’s Mississippi River includes illustrations from various editions of his books, both fiction and nonfiction; maps; historical photographs; landscape paintings of the river and its inhabitants; and modern photography of towns and countryside, showing how much the landscape has changed (or hasn’t) since the days of Huckleberry Finn./divDIV/divDIVFilled with excerpts, quotations, newspaper clippings, and commentaries, this book is full of historical information about the life of Samuel Clemens, his literary creations, and the river that figured so prominently in both. With over 200 beautiful photos and a knowledgeable narrative written by Twain scholar and author R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain’s Mississippi River is simply a joy to read for anyone who loves to discover the reality behind the writer./div
Book Synopsis River of Dreams by : Thomas Ruys Smith
Download or read book River of Dreams written by Thomas Ruys Smith and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the decades before Mark Twain enthralled the world with his evocative representations of the Mississippi, the river played an essential role in American culture and consciousness. Throughout the antebellum era, the Mississippi acted as a powerful symbol of America's conception of itself -- and the world's conception of America. As Twain understood, "The Mississippi is well worth reading about." Thomas Ruys Smith's River of Dreams is an examination of the Mississippi's role in the antebellum imagination, exploring its cultural position in literature, art, thought, and national life. Presidents, politicians, authors, poets, painters, and international celebrities of every variety experienced the Mississippi in its Golden Age. They left an extraordinary collection of representations of the river in their wake, images that evolved as America itself changed. From Thomas Jefferson's vision for the Mississippi to Andrew Jackson and the rowdy river culture of the early nineteenth century, Smith charts the Mississippi's shifting importance in the making of the nation. He examines the accounts of European travelers, including Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray, whose views of the river were heavily influenced by the world of the steamboat and plantation slavery. Smith discusses the growing importance of visual representations of the Mississippi as the antebellum period progressed, exploring the ways in which views of the river, particularly giant moving panoramas that toured the world, echoed notions of manifest destiny and the westward movement. He evokes the river in the late antebellum years as a place of crime and mystery, especially in popular writing, and most notably in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man. An epilogue discusses the Mississippi during the Civil War, when possession of the river became vital, symbolically as well as militarily. The epilogue also provides an introduction to Mark Twain, a product of the antebellum river world who was to resurrect its imaginative potential for a post-war nation and produce an iconic Mississippi that still flows through a wide and fertile floodplain in American literature. From empire building in the Louisiana Purchase to the trauma of the Civil War, the Mississippi's dominant symbolic meanings tracked the essential forces operating within the nation. As Smith shows in this groundbreaking work, the story of the imagined Mississippi River is the story of antebellum America itself.
Book Synopsis Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide by : Peter E. Palmquist
Download or read book Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide written by Peter E. Palmquist and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.
Book Synopsis Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 5 by : Laurie Garrison
Download or read book Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 5 written by Laurie Garrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.
Book Synopsis Mark Twain's Mississippi River by : Peter Schilling
Download or read book Mark Twain's Mississippi River written by Peter Schilling and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illustrated history of the Mississippi River in Mark Twain's life and works. Includes sketches from early editions of Twain's classics, and full-color paintings, postcards, photographs, and maps"--
Book Synopsis The Lost Panoramas by : Richard Cahan
Download or read book The Lost Panoramas written by Richard Cahan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 150 never-before-published duotone images, taken between 1892 and 1930, this collection explores the history of the Chicago River and the impact its reversal had on the watershed all the way to the Mississippi River. Offering the most complete description available of the river reversal, the stories told here provide a better understanding as to how it was done and why it was necessary, as well as how the water from the Chicago River is treated. The photographs were pulled from a glass plate photo collection taken by the Sanitary District of Chicago.
Book Synopsis Spectacle Culture and American Identity 1815–1940 by : S. Tenneriello
Download or read book Spectacle Culture and American Identity 1815–1940 written by S. Tenneriello and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenic spectacles collapse the borders of graphic and visual arts, multimedia technology, spectatorship and architecture. Drawing upon various systems of commercial, institutional and public spectacle that intersect with scenic stages of the national landscape, Tenneriello examines how spectacle is entrenched in the formation of national identity.
Book Synopsis The Mississippi River, Border to Border by : Abdul-Karim Rafic Sinno
Download or read book The Mississippi River, Border to Border written by Abdul-Karim Rafic Sinno and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic voyage of the Mississippi River as it winds its way through the nation. Covering the 10 river states from the headwaters in Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico, with a focus on Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois, this book features the river in its many phases from the variant blue to the muddy brown or the reddish glow around sunsets and sunrises. Start your journey of discovery through these beautiful vistas of America's River, through the lens and pens of Dr. Abdul Sinno of Dubuque, Iowa and sons Rafic and Omar. It's the perfect gift for any occasion!
Book Synopsis African Americans and the Mississippi River by : Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
Download or read book African Americans and the Mississippi River written by Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the historical trajectory of African Americans and their relationship with the Mississippi River dating back to the 1700s and ending with Hurricane Katrina and the still-contested Delta landscape. Long touted in literary and historical works, the Mississippi River remains an iconic presence in the American landscape. Whether referred to as "Old Man River" or the "Big Muddy," the Mississippi River represents imageries ranging from the pastoral and Acadian to turbulent and unpredictable. However, these imageries—revealed through the cultural production of artists, writers, poets, musicians, and even filmmakers—did not reflect the experiences of everyone living and working along the river. Missing is a broader discourse of the African American community and the Mississippi River. Through the experiences of African Americans with the Mississippi River, which included narratives of labor (free and enslaved), refuge, floods, and migration, a different history of the river and its environs emerges. The book brings multiple perspectives together to explore this rich history of the Mississippi River through the intersection of race and class with the environment. The text will be of great interest to students and researchers in environmental humanities, including environmental justice studies, ethnic studies, and US and African American history.
Author :Curtis C. & Elizabeth M. Roseman & Roseman Publisher :University of Iowa Press ISBN 13 :1587294850 Total Pages :271 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (872 download)
Book Synopsis Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River by : Curtis C. & Elizabeth M. Roseman & Roseman
Download or read book Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River written by Curtis C. & Elizabeth M. Roseman & Roseman and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists; politicians; academics, writers and artists; business and industry leaders; and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. The travelers were shown a region undergoing rapid settlement by Europeans—an area of great natural beauty offering many promises for additional development. One hundred and fifty years later, the thirteen essays in this volume examine the activities and environments of the 1854 Grand Excursion and place them in the context of an evolving regional identity for the Upper Mississippi River Valley based on the economy, culture, geography, and history of the area. In a series of “excursions,” the contributors explore the building of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, eastern newspaper accounts of the 1854 excursion, steamboating, the area’s pictorial landscape, passenger trains along the scenic river, the genesis and features of river towns, the control of the river for navigation, the development of preserves, parks, and recreation areas, the lumber industry, and commercial fishing. The book concludes by examining the resurgence of river-oriented development, as river towns are once again embracing the Mississippi. Generously illustrated with maps, engravings, ephemera, and historic and present-day photographs, Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River will be of interest to tourists and residents of the area, river aficionados, railroad and steamboat history buffs, as well as academics interested in the history, geography, and regional development of the area.
