Annual Reports

Annual Reports
Author: Carnegie Institute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1920
Genre: Art museums
ISBN:

Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.

A Curious & Ingenious Art

A Curious & Ingenious Art
Author: Melissa Banta
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN:

"Harvard also saw the potential of photography for scientific research, as stunningly exemplified in one of the first detailed daguerreotypes of the moon, taken in 1851, as well as in images capturing the emergence of modern anesthesia. An unfortunate misuse of photography is recalled in the now famous slave daguerreotypes commissioned by natural historian Louis Agassiz, who believed in the theory of separate human species.".

Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800

Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754662488

Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain.