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Author: Mary Grace HalpinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Family Garland, a Choice Book for Families and Social Libraries. Richly Embellished with Steel and Flower Plates. [The Editor Named as Mary Grace Halpine.]
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Author: Mary Grace HalpineNineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977353
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977315
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Life of Edwin Forrest
Author: William Rounseville AlgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Afro-American Press and Its Editors
Author: Irvine Garland PennPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Painted Wood
Author: Valerie DorgePublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892365013
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The function of the painted wooden object ranges from the practical to the profound. These objects may perform utilitarian tasks, convey artistic whimsy, connote noble aspirations, and embody the highest spiritual expressions. This volume, illustrated in color throughout, presents the proceedings of a conference organized by the Wooden Artifacts Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and held in November 1994 at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia. The book includes 40 articles that explore the history and conservation of a wide range of painted wooden objects, from polychrome sculpture and altarpieces to carousel horses, tobacconist figures, Native American totems, Victorian garden furniture, French cabinets, architectural elements, and horse-drawn carriages. Contributors include Ian C. Bristow, an architect and historic-building consultant in London; Myriam Serck-Dewaide, head of the Sculpture Workshop, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels; and Frances Gruber Safford, associate curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A broad range of professionals—including art historians, curators, scientists, and conservators—will be interested in this volume and in the multidisciplinary nature of its articles.
The Genesee
Author: Henry W. ClunePublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815624363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
African American Architects
Author: Dreck Spurlock WilsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135956294
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 855
Book Description
Since 1865 African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings, but the architects are virtually unknown. This work brings their lives and work to light for the first time.
Twelve Years a Slave
Author: Solomon NorthupPublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726609053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northup's powerful slave narrative 'Twelve Years a Slave' depicts Nortup's life as he is sold into slavery after having spent 32 years of his life living as a free man in New York. Working as a travelling musician, Northup goes to Washington D.C, where he is kidnapped, sent to New Orleans, and sold to a planter to suffer the relentless and brutal life of a slave. After a dozen years, Northup escapes to return to his family and pulls no punches, as he describes his fate and that of so many other black people at the time. It is a harrowing but vitally important book, even today. For further reading on this subject, try 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Solomon Northup (c.1807-c.1875) was an American abolitionist and writer, best remembered for his powerful race memoir 'Twelve Years a Slave'. At the age of 32, when he was a married farmer, father-of-three, violinist and free-born man, he was kidnapped in Washington D.C and shipped to New Orleans, sold to a planter and enslaved for a dozen years. When he gained his freedom, he wrote his famous memoir and spent some years lecturing across the US,on behalf of the abolitionist movement. 'Twelve Years a Slave' was published a year after 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by Harriet Beecher Stowe and built on the anti-slavery momentum it had developed. Northup's final years are something of a mystery, though it is thought that he struggled to cope with family life after being freed.