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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kelsey, Robin, 1961-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18799914