Historical Souvenir
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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Education
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Historical Souvenir and Book of the Pageants
Author : Canada. National Battlefields Commission
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Pageants
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"Grip's" Historical Souvenir of Wolcott, N.Y.
Author : Edgar Luderne Welch
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Wolcott (N.Y.)
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Historical Souvenir of the Ninth Regiment, Infantry, N. G. P.
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 1896
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Souvenir Nation
Author : William L. Bird, Jr.
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1616892757
Book Description
Buried within the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History exists an astonishing group of historical relics from the pre-Revolutionary War era to the present day, many of which have never been on display. Donated to the museum by generations of souvenir collectors, these ordinary objects of extraordinary circumstance all have amazing tales to tell about their roles in American history. Souvenir Nation presents fifty of the museum's most eccentric items. Objects include a chunk broken off Plymouth Rock; a lock of Andrew Jackson's hair; a dish towel used as the flag of truce to end the Civil War; the microphones used by FDR for his Fireside Chats; and the chairs that seated Nixon and Kennedy in their 1960 television debate.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Author : Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 158834570X
Book Description
This souvenir book showcases some of the most influential and important treasures of the National Museum of African American History and Culture's collections. These include a hymn book owned by Harriet Tubman; ankle shackles used to restrain enslaved people on ships during the Middle Passage; a dress that Rosa Parks was making shortly before she was arrested; a vintage, open-cockpit Tuskegee Airmen trainer plane; Muhammad Ali's headgear; an 1835 Bill of Sale enslaving a young girl named Polly; and Chuck Berry's Cadillac. These objects tell us the full story of African American history, of triumphs and tragedies and highs and lows. This book, like the museum it represents, uses artifacts of African American history and culture as a lens into what it means to be an American.
Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington, Indiana
Author : John M. Gresham Company
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Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1889
Category : History
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Book Description
Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana by John M. Gresham Company, first published in 1889, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
The Illustrated Historical Souvenir of Randolph, Vermont
Author : Nickerson & Cox
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Randolph (Vt. : Town)
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American Spoons
Author : Dorothy T. Rainwater
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780887402661
Book Description
First published in 1968, this classic work remains the basic reference book for collectors and fanciers of American spoons. Now offered in a new edition, it will be a welcome resource in your library. Spoons themselves originated in prehistoric times, when shells performed their function for the inhabitants of southern Europe, but spoons as commemorative items began with the Niagra Falls Suspension Bridge Spoon patented by Myron H. Kinsley in 1881. Soon their popularity spread as ideal mementos for practically every conceivable event, personage, or natural wonder. Ranging from expensive sterling silver sets to fifteen cent mailorder spoons, the variety of design, quality and interests reflected in this richly illustrated book is truly impressive.
Souvenir
Author : Rolf Potts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501329421
Book Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples-from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop-travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation. Souvenirs are shown for what they really are: not just objects, but personalized forms of folk storytelling that enable people to make sense of the world and their place in it.' Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Souvenir features illustrations by Cedar Van Tassel
