Stereo Views of the Golden Era in San Francisco
Author : Arthur Chandler
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Anaglyph views
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Author : Arthur Chandler
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Anaglyph views
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1898 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Copyright
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Author : Marquis Who's Who, LLC
Publisher : Marquis Who's Who
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 1982-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780837909189
Author : Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780804738835
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Author : Bancroft Library
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Page : 698 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
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Category : America
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Author : Robert J. Chandler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0806145250
Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes, he also produced and published maps, charts, and business documents, and he illustrated books, sheet music, advertisements, and labels for cans and other packaging. This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist. Chandler’s contextualization of Brown’s career goes beyond the issue of race. Showing how Brown survived and flourished as a businessman, Chandler offers unique insight into the growth of printing and publishing in California and the West. He examines the rise of lithography, its commercial and cultural importance, and the competition among lithographic companies. He also analyzes Brown’s work and style, comparing it to the products of rival firms. Brown was not respected as a fine artist until after his death. Collectors of western art and Americana now recognize the importance of Californiana and of Brown’s work, some of which depicts Portland and the Pacific Northwest, and they will find Chandler’s checklist, descriptions, and reproductions of Brown’s ephemera—including billheads and maps—as uniquely valuable as Chandler’s contribution to the cultural and commercial history of California. In an afterword, historian Shirley Ann Wilson Moore discusses the circumstances and significance of passing in nineteenth-century America.
Author :
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Art
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Photography
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Author : Harland R. Cravat
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Aerial photogrammetry
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Author : Jaques Cattell Press
Publisher :
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Scholars
ISBN : 9780835210737