A Pictorial History of Texas
Author : Homer S. Thrall
Publisher :
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Texas
ISBN :
Author : Homer S. Thrall
Publisher :
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Texas
ISBN :
Author : Henry C. Dethloff
Publisher : Centennial the Association of
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623492458
Celebrates the 120-year history of Texas A & M University, from its founding in 1876 through the construction of the George Bush Presidential Library. Features historical and contemporary photographs and highlights the school's military tradition.
Author : Stan Cohen
Publisher : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862
ISBN : 9781575100609
On April 12, 1862, twenty Union soldiers and two civilians stole a train powered by a locomotive named "The General" just north of Atlanta. Their mission was to drive the train north to Chattanooga, destroying bridges, railways, and rolling stock along the way. Confederates, however, commandeered several engines, including "The Texas, " and initiated what became known as "The Great Locomotive Chase." Two movies and numerous books have been dedicated to this chapter in American history, but this is the first pictorial account of the incident. A thorough narrative is accompanied by numerous archival photographs, drawings, and maps associated with raid. After abandoning their mission, eight of the Union soldiers were executed and the remainder exchanged for Confederate POWs. The first Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded to the Union soldiers who participated.
Author : Henry C. Dethloff
Publisher : Centennial the Association of
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2000-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781585440955
Author : Homer S. Thrall
Publisher :
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2012-01-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781462219735
Hardcover reprint of the original 1879 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. All foldouts have been masterfully reprinted in their original form. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Thrall, Homer S.. . A Pictorial History of Texas, From The Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, To A.D. 1879. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Thrall, Homer S.. . A Pictorial History of Texas, From The Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, To A.D. 1879, . St. Louis, Mo., N.D. Thompson & Co., 1879.
Author : Herbert Gambrell
Publisher :
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 1960
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Roger Nuhn
Publisher : Walsworth Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business
ISBN : 9780898658798
This book strives to give a glimpse into the past of New Braunfels and its environs through priceless pictures.
Author : Walter Rundell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2000-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890969915
At the beginning of this century oil transformed the Texas economy and wrought profound and lasting changes on life within the state. Here, in 328 contemporary photographs is an eyewitness record of the early days of the Texas oil industry. When Lyne Barret brought in the first well in 1866 near Nacogdoches, photography was in its adolescence, so the entire history of the Texas petroleum industry fortunately was documented by the camera. Although that well amounted to very little, thirty years later Corsicana proved the commercial success of Texas oil, and when Spindletop roared in on January 10, 1901, a new era began for Texas and the entire petroleum industry. Other fields opened--Saratoga, Sour Lake, Batson, Humble, Electra, Burkburnett, Goose Creek, Ranger, Desdemona, Breckenridge, Mexia, Big Lake, the Permian Basin, Borger, and the incomparable East Texas field--and camera men were there to capture the excitement of discovery and the changes brought by oil. Unforgettable photographs of oil-field folk--drillers, roustabouts, tool dressers, tycoons--of the bustling boom towns and the derrick-crowded fields, dramatically portray the people and how they lived and worked. Recorded too are primitive refineries, oil tankers under sail and steam, pipeline crews, and the "modern" transportation and retailing facilities of the 1930s. Walter Rundell's text provides the historical setting for the photographs, focusing always on the human element. This combination of pictures and text presents a vivid social history of early Texas oil and its tremendous impact on Texas and its people.
Author : Homer Thrall
Publisher :
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Texas
ISBN : 9780781259088
Bonded Leather binding
Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292783124
The Aztecs and Mixtecs of ancient Mexico recorded their histories pictorially in images painted on hide, paper, and cloth. The tradition of painting history continued even after the Spanish Conquest, as the Spaniards accepted the pictorial histories as valid records of the past. Five Pre-Columbian and some 150 early colonial painted histories survive today. This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre. Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how the Mexican historians conceptualized and painted their past and introduces the major pictorial records: the Aztec annals and cartographic histories and the Mixtec screenfolds and lienzos. Boone focuses her analysis on the kinds of stories told in the histories and on how the manuscripts work pictorially to encode, organize, and preserve these narratives. This twofold investigation broadens our understanding of how preconquest Mexicans used pictographic history for political and social ends. It also demonstrates how graphic writing systems created a broadly understood visual "language" that communicated effectively across ethnic and linguistic boundaries.