Archive style : photographs & illustrations for U.S. surveys, 1850-1890 /

This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American In...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Kelsey, Robin, 1961-
Formáid: Licensed eBooks
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Rochtain ar líne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18799914
Clár na nÁbhar:
  • Introduction : riddles and premises
  • Arthur Schott : marking the Mexican boundary
  • Timothy H. O'Sullivan : surveys of the American West
  • C.C. Jones : the USGS investigation of the Charleston Earthquake
  • Conclusion : archive style.