The Great Peshtigo Fire

The Great Peshtigo Fire
Author: Peter Pernin
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0870206842

Reverend Peter Pernin was the parish priest for Peshtigo and nearby Marinette, whose churches burned to the ground. He published his account of the fire in 1874. The late William Converse Haygood served as editor of the Wisconsin Magazine of History from 1957 to 1975. He prepared this version of Father Pernin's account on the occasion of the Peshtigo Fire's centennial in 1971. Foreword writer Stephen J. Pyne is a professor at Arizona State University in Tempe and author of numerous books on wildland fire, including Fire in America.

The Silver Canvas

The Silver Canvas
Author: Bates Lowry
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2000-02-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892365366

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.

Hard Water

Hard Water
Author: Kate Foss-Mollan
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781557531957

Examines formation, growth and change in the Milwaukee water department. Combining history, technology, politics and policy-making, the author explains how municipal decision-making processes determine technological determinations throughout the history of water works.