Picturing Victorian America

Picturing Victorian America
Author: Nancy Finlay
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0819571253

Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society (2009) Winner of the Betty M. Linsley Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (2010) This is the first book-length account of the pioneering and prolific Kellogg family of lithographers, active in Connecticut for over four decades. Daniel Wright Kellogg opened his print shop on Main Street in Hartford five years before Nathaniel Currier went into a similar business in New York and more than twenty-five years before Currier founded his partnership with James M. Ives, yet Daniel and his brothers Elijah and Edmund Kellogg have long been overshadowed by the Currier & Ives printmaking firm. Editor Nancy Finlay has gathered together eight essays that explore the complexity of the relationships between artists, lithographers, and print, map, and book publishers. Presenting a complete visual overview of the Kelloggs' production between 1830 and 1880, Picturing Victorian America also provides museums, libraries, and private collectors with the information needed to document the Kellogg prints in their own collections. The first comprehensive study of the Kellogg prints, this book demands reconsideration of this Connecticut family's place in the history of American graphic and visual arts. CONTRIBUTORS: Georgia B. Barnhill, Lynne Zacek Bassett, Candice C. Brashears, Nancy Finlay, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Richard C. Malley, Sally Pierce, Michael Shortell, Kate Steinway.

Playing with Pictures

Playing with Pictures
Author: Elizabeth Siegel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This title examines comprehensively the little-known phenomenon of Victorian photocollage, presenting imagery that has rarely - and in many cases, never - been displayed or reproduced.

Picture World

Picture World
Author: Rachel Teukolsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2020
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0198859732

Explores the ways in which new forms of visual culture, such as such as the illustrated newspaper, the cheap caricature cartoon, the affordable illustrated book, the portrait photograph, and the advertising poster, worked to shape key Victorian aesthetic concepts.

Victorian America

Victorian America
Author: Wendell Garrett
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: 9780789300256

Principal photography by Paul Rocheleau. "Knowledgeable descriptions of the houses & their interiors."--Chicago Tribune.

The Light of the Home

The Light of the Home
Author: Harvey Green
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1557287600

From the greatest collection of American Victoriana comes a wonderful evocation of the lives of women 100 years ago. Harvey Green culls from letters and diaries, quotes from magazines, and looks at the clothes, samplers, books, appliances, toys, and dolls of the era to provide a rare portrait of daily life in turn-of-the-century America.

Victorian Fashions

Victorian Fashions
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486402215

Panoramic display of evolving styles ranges from hoop-skirted gowns of the mid-1800s to turn-of-the-century fashions that produced diminished bustles and close-fitting skirts. "A superb resource." — History in Review.

America's Painted Ladies

America's Painted Ladies
Author: Elizabeth Pomada
Publisher: Studio
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0140238573

Now, the long-awaited companion to Painted Ladies, Daughters of Painted Ladies, and Painted Ladies Revisited is available in paperback. Presents a dazzling orgy of Victoriana inside and out with more than 400 color photographs of Painted Ladies across the country.

Lynn in the Victorian Era

Lynn in the Victorian Era
Author: Diane Shephard
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738511375

The Victorian Era was a period of rapid industrialization and technological advancement for Lynn. A rise in manufactured goods, increased commercialism, and the building of a large labor force transformed the city at an unprecedented rate. Taken mainly from a newly acquired collection of glass-plate negatives, Lynn in the Victorian Era provides a unique snapshot of the city, frozen at one moment in time. The images in this collection were taken as Lynn celebrated its 250th anniversary in 1879. It was a time when Lynn was just entering into the period of its greatest economic prosperity and physical growth. Immigrants were flocking to the city, drawn by the shoe factories that soon took their place at the very forefront of the industry. Lynn in the Victorian Era holds images of a city that is unquestioningly embracing its industrial future. It is a view of the city at once oddly foreign and hauntingly familiar. It is also a very fleeting picture; many of the scenes depicted in these remarkable photographs fell to the first Great Lynn Fire in 1889.

Picturing America

Picturing America
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018-12-10
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9004385479

Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding photographs as prime sites of knowledge production and advocates of socio-political transformations, a transnational set of scholars reveals how images enact both our perception and conception of American environments. They investigate the power photography yields in shaping our ideas of self, nation, and empire, of private and public space, through urban, landscape, wasteland and portrait photography. The volume radically reconfigures how pictures alter the development of American places in the past, present, and future.

Bold Spirit

Bold Spirit
Author: Linda Lawrence Hunt
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307425061

In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb. Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.