Gotham Comes Of Age

Author : Peter Simmons
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : 0764909061

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Gotham Comes of Age by Peter Simmons Pdf

"Arranged thematically, the photographs showcased here are but a sampling from about 22,000 images produced by the Byron Company's New York City commercial studio over a 50-year period. And for 40 of those years, Mrs. Joseph Byron oversaw the photo-printing work for what is usually thought of as a father-and-son enterprise. The Museum of the City of New York acquired the negatives and prints when the firm closed in 1942. Three earlier books on the Byron Collection failed to show the breadth of the collection, which was recently revealed during an archiving project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. With their large-format cameras, the Byrons went beyond the sheltered world of the upper classes in their elegant houses and ocean liners. Also included are documentary images of Lower East Side tenements, recently arrived steerage passengers, and the African American neighborhood west of Columbus Circle. The reproduction quality here is excellent, and the interpretive captions lend meaning to these definitive views of early 20th-century New York City. Highly recommended for photography, architecture, and urban studies collections. Kathleen Collins, Bank of America Archives, San Francisco"--Library Journal

Author : Matthew Manning
Publisher : Insight Editions
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1647220610

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DC Comics: Exploring Gotham City by Matthew Manning Pdf

Discover the secrets of Gotham City with this large-scale interactive book, DC Comics: Exploring Gotham City. DC Comics: Exploring Gotham City combines striking full-color illustrations of Gotham City with interactive elements that reveal the secrets of the most fascinating locations from the birthplace of the Dark Knight. Explore famous landmarks like the Batcave, Arkham Asylum, and Wayne Manor and uncover the mysteries of the Gotham City. The first in a series of large-scale interactive books that explore the iconic locations from the world of DC Comics, DC Comics: Exploring Gotham City is the perfect book for readers of all ages who want to investigate the tumultuous city Batman calls home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002*
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : OCLC:50297820

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Gotham Comes of Age by Anonim Pdf

Reproduces photographs of New York from the Byron Company, together with a history of the company.

Author : Rebecca Zurier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520220188

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Picturing the City by Rebecca Zurier Pdf

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Author : Joan Marans Dim,Nancy Murphy Cricco
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0739102168

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The Miracle on Washington Square by Joan Marans Dim,Nancy Murphy Cricco Pdf

In this richly illustrated volume, Joan Marans Dim and Nancy Murphy Cricco bring together a wide range of historical materials to craft a remarkable institutional history of New York University. The Miracle on Washington Square charts the parallel emergence of New York City and its namesake university into international prominence. Synthesizing an array of institutional and archival documentation with a unique visual history, the authors provide insight into the making of a university and the leadership required for its continued growth.

Author : M. Schweitzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137437358

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Transatlantic Broadway by M. Schweitzer Pdf

Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.

Author : Alexandra Monir
Publisher : Ember
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385738392

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Timeless by Alexandra Monir Pdf

When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor’s world, she is forced to uproot her life and move across the country to New York City, to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she’s never met. In their old Fifth Avenue mansion filled with a century’s worth of family secrets, Michele discovers a diary that hurtles her back in time to the year 1910. There, in the midst of the glamorous Gilded Age, Michele meets the young man with striking blue eyes who has haunted her dreams all her life – a man she always wished was real, but never imagined could actually exist. And she finds herself falling for him, into an otherworldly, time-crossed romance. Michele is soon leading a double life, struggling to balance her contemporary high school world with her escapes into the past. But when she stumbles upon a terrible discovery, she is propelled on a race through history to save the boy she loves – a quest that will determine the fate of both of their lives.

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415667876

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The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature traces a historical path through Latino/a literatures, with an enlightening analysis that also focuses on: recent themes such as gender and sexuality, feminist and queer voices, migration and border control different literary trends such as the postmodern, avant-garde, noir, and chica-lit language, code-switching and identity within the literature. With student-friendly features such as a glossary, guide to further reading, explanatory text boxes and chapter summaries, this is the ideal book for anyone approaching this broad and complex subject for the first time.

Author : Elisabeth H. Kinsley
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271084213

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Here in This Island We Arrived by Elisabeth H. Kinsley Pdf

In this book, Elisabeth H. Kinsley weaves the stories of racially and ethnically distinct Shakespeare theatre scenes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Manhattan into a single cultural history, revealing how these communities interacted with one another and how their work influenced ideas about race and belonging in the United States during a time of unprecedented immigration. As Progressive Era reformers touted the works of Shakespeare as an “antidote” to the linguistic and cultural mixing of American society, and some reformers attempted to use the Bard’s plays to “Americanize” immigrant groups on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, immigrants from across Europe appropriated Shakespeare for their own ends. Kinsley uses archival material such as reform-era handbooks, theatre posters, playbills, programs, sheet music, and reviews to demonstrate how, in addition to being a source of cultural capital, authority, and resistance for these communities, Shakespeare’s plays were also a site of cultural exchange. Performances of Shakespeare occasioned nuanced social encounters between New York’s empowered and marginalized groups and influenced sociocultural ideas about what Shakespeare, race, and national belonging should and could mean for Americans. Timely and immensely readable, this book explains how ideas about cultural belonging formed and transformed within a particular human community at a time of heightened demographic change. Kinsley’s work will be welcomed by anyone interested in the formation of national identity, immigrant communities, and the history of the theatre scene in New York and the rest of the United States.

Author : Joan Marans Dims
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823287208

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Lady Liberty by Joan Marans Dims Pdf

Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States. It began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended by, among others, a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. It was the extravagant notion of creating and giving a monumental statue to America that celebrated the young nation’s ideals. Bartholdi, and later civil engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, caught the spirit of the project and thus began the epic struggle to create, build, transport, and pay for the monument. Although the Statue of Liberty was to be a gift from France, the cost of its creation was meant to be shared with America. To the Lady’s creators and supporters, America offered liberty and the right to live one’s life unencumbered—that is, without fear and with a rule of law and a government that derived its power from the consent of the people it governed. Yet, in America, fundraising for the Lady dragged. Had it not been for publisher Joseph Pulitzer’s flashy fundraising campaign in his newspaper the World, the entire project likely would have collapsed. The tale, abundant with lively and interesting stories about the Statue of Liberty’s creators, is also told in the context of America’s immigration policies—past and present. Explored, too, is the American immigrant experience and how it viscerally connects to the Lady. Also integral to the tale is poetry—a sonnet—written by a then–largely unknown Jewish poet, Emma Lazarus, who moved a nation and gave a deeply rich and fresh meaning and purpose to the statue. In addition to the prose, Lady Liberty includes thirty-three elegant, full-page stirring paintings by celebrated artist Antonio Masi. Lady Liberty, a smart, timely, entertaining, and nonpartisan jewel of a book, is written for every American, young and old, and those who dream of one day becoming Americans. Praise for Lady Liberty “A beautiful reminder of what makes us so special, blended with the history that tells us that if America loses our welcoming soul, we have lost what makes us so special.” —David Lawrence Jr., retired publisher of the Miami Herald and chair of The Children's Movement of Florida “Now, at a time when immigration is hotly debated, Lady Liberty helps both residents of New York and enthusiastic visitors like me appreciate the history, culture and artistry behind this monument that for generations has welcomed immigrants to America.” —Richard A. Oppel Sr., editor-in-chief emeritus, Texas Monthly, and chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, 2008-2009

Author : Peter Bacon Hales
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0826331785

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Silver Cities by Peter Bacon Hales Pdf

This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America.

Author : Dennis A. Trinkle,Scott A. Merriman
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0765609045

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The History Highway 3.0 by Dennis A. Trinkle,Scott A. Merriman Pdf

Now including a CD-ROM, this redesigned and thoroughly updated edition of The History Highway guides users to the astonishing amount of historical information available on the Internet. It features more entries on non-U.S. history than ever before, and the CD-ROM contains the entire contents as PDF files with live links, so that users can put the disk into their computers, go on line, and click directly to the sites. A special feature, "Editor's Choice," indicates superior destinations for researchers. In addition to the complete new edition, three specialized versions are also available offering specific coverage of just those sites that apply to world history, U.S. history, or European history, along with basic information about Internet research that is included with all four versions. Covering hundreds of sites and designed for ease of use and maximum flexibility, The History Highway 3.0 is an indispensable tool for historical research in the twenty first-century, no matter what the area or level of interest.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458731333

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The King of Ragtime (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dennis A. Trinkle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000158540

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The American History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources on U.S., Canadian, and Latin American History by Dennis A. Trinkle Pdf

This brand new addition to the acclaimed "History Highway" series is essential for anyone conducting historical research on North, Central, or South America. Complete with a CD with live links to sites, it directs users to the best and broadest, most current information on U.S., Canadian, and Latin American history available on the Internet. "The American History Highway": provides detailed, easy-to-use information on more than 1,700 websites; covers all periods of U.S., Canadian, and Latin American History; features new coverage of Hispanic American and Asian American History; includes chapters on environmental history, immigration history, and document collections; all site information is current and up-to-date; includes a CD of the entire contents with live links to sites - just install the disc, go online, and link directly to the sites; and, also provides a practical introduction to web-based research for students and history buffs of all ages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458730961

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The King of Ragtime (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by Anonim Pdf