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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18799914 |
Sommario:
- 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.