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Author | : Eric Sandweiss |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826214393 |
Assembled in honor of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of philanthropist and entrepreneur Henry Shaw (1800-1889), St. Louis in the Century of Henry Shaw is a collection of nine provocative essays that together provide a definitive account of the life of St. Louis during the 1800s, a thriving period during which the city acquired the status of the largest metropolis in the American West. Shaw, who established the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1859, was just one of the many immigrants who left their mark on this complex, culturally rich city during the century of its greatest growth. This volume examines the lives of a number of these men and women, from celebrated leaders such as Senator Thomas Hart Benton and the Reverend William Greenleaf Eliot to the thousands of Germans, African Americans, and others whose labor built the city we recognize today. Leading scholars reconstruct and interpret the world that Shaw knew in his long lifetime: a world of contention and of creativity, of trendsetting developments in politics, business, scientific research, and the arts. Shaw's own story mirrored these developments. Born in Sheffield, England, he immigrated to the United States in 1819 and soon moved to St. Louis. Ultimately becoming a very successful businessman and philanthropist, he was a participant in and a witness to the vast economic and cultural transformation of the city.
Author | : Henry Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Clothing and dress |
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Author | : Henry Shaw |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Decoration and ornament |
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Author | : United States. Marine Corps |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : Josh Billings |
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Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : American wit & humor |
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Author | : Roy Henry Vickers |
Publisher | : Harbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1550176617 |
In a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who keeps the light in a box. By transforming himself into a pine needle, clever Weget tricks the Chief and escapes with the daylight back down to Earth. Vividly portrayed through the art of Roy Henry Vickers, Weget's story has been passed down for generations. The tale has been traced back at least 3,000 years by archeologists who have found images of Weget's journey in petroglyphs on the Nass and Skeena rivers. This version of the story originates from one told to the author by Chester Bolton, Chief of the Ravens, from the village of Kitkatla around 1975.
Author | : Henry Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : ARCHITECTURE |
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Elizabethan architecture was a style popular during Queen Elizabeth's reign inthe Early English Renaissance. This catalog contains over 50 drawings by antiquarian Henry Shaw, who studied Elizabethan architecture. Included are detailed drawings of ornamentation, buildings androyal heraldry.
Author | : Samuel Rush Meyrick |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Furniture |
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Author | : Henry Shaw |
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Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Alphabets |
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"In the same vein, Beckwith comments: the first of many British 19th-century studies of illuminated manuscripts, such books opened the public's eyes to the aesthetic and historical value of manuscript arts. The format was a model for 19th-century studies of the history and methods of illumination, a landmark in the diffusion of information about manuscript arts and their history and made a significant contribution to Victorian bibliomania. This may in fact be the very first book on illumination and its history to have color plates, and can certainly be said to have had a profound influence on early Victorian taste in and appreciation of illuminated manuscripts."--Abebooks.
Author | : Henry Shaw |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 0486404668 |
30 authentic alphabets and over 150 individual letters and decorative devices -- taken from Westminster Abbey monuments, 15th-century French prayer books, and other sources -- incorporate vines, flowers, leaves, faces, and more.