Annals of Savannah, 1850-1937
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1961
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : United States. Work Projects Administration. Georgia
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Indexes
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Author : United States. Work Projects Administration. Georgia
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Indexes
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Author : James E. Snead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0192508423
Relic Hunters is a study of the complex relationship between the people of 19th century America with the material antiquities of North America's indigenous past. As scholars struggled to explain their existence, farmers in Ohio were plowing up arrowheads, building their houses atop burial mounds, and developing their own ideas about antiquity. They experienced the new country as a "place with history" reflected in material traces that became important touch points for scientific knowledge, but for American cultural identity as well. Relic Hunters traces the encounter with American antiquities from 1812 to 1879. This encompasses the period when archaeology took root in the United States: it also spans the "deep settlement" of the Midwest and sectional strife both before and after the Civil War. At the center of the story is the first iconic find of American archaeology, known as "the Kentucky Mummy." Discovered deep in a cavern, this dessicated burial became the subject of scholarly competition, traveling exhibitions, and even poetry. The book uses the theme of the Kentucky Mummy to structure the broader story of the public and American antiquities, a tour that leads through rural museums, mound excavations, lecture tours, shady deals, and ultimately into the famous attic of the Smithsonian Institution. Ultimately, Relic Hunters is a story of the American landscape, and of the role of archaeology in shaping that place. Derived from letters, memoranda, and reports found in more than a dozen archives, this is a unique account of a critical encounter that shaped local and national identity in ways that are only now being explored.
Author : Maurice Melton
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0817317635
This is the story of the Confederate navy's Savannah Squadron, its relationship with the people of Savannah, Georgia, and its role in the city's economy. The author charts the history of the unit, the sailors (both white and black), the officers, their families, and their activities aboard ship and in port. The Savannah Squadron worked, patrolled, and fought in the rivers and sounds along the Georgia coast. Though they saw little activity at sea, the unit did engage in naval assault, boarding, capture, and ironclad combat. The sailors finished the war as an infantry unit in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, fighting at Sayler's Creek on the road to Appomattox. The author concentrates on navy life and the squadron's place in wartime Savannah. The book reveals who the Confederate sailors were and what their material, social, and working lives were like.
Author : Ruth Irwin Weidner
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Painting
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Author : Meredith Bright Colket
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 1995
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Ancestry is traced to Niquilly Pellot who lived in La Neuveville, Canton Bern, Switzerland in 1432. His descendant, Jonas Pelot (ca. 1687-1754), was probably born at La Neuveville. He married Susanne Marie Jaquet ca. 1716 and later (2) Jane. Jonas and Susanne immigrated to South Carolina in 1734 and settled in Purysburg, Granville County. Descendants lived in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, and elsewhere. Includes information on other Pelot families also.
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Page : 698 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1964
Category : American literature
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780820317939
By the end of the eighteenth century, classicism, which arose out of Europe's fascination with ancient Greece and Rome, had also left its mark on America. This study of the classical style in the fine and decorative arts shows the extent to which it influenced the material culture of Savannah, Georgia, from 1800 to 1840. More than 130 examples of objects owned in Savannah in this period are illustrated, described, and discussed. The objects include oil paintings and watercolors, clocks, musical instruments, jewelry, sculptures, engravings, bank notes, needlework, china, silver, brass, lighting fixtures, architectural elements, and furniture. Page Talbott presents an overview of the origins of classicism in Europe and its spread to America. Emphasizing Americans' close identification of classicism with national values and ideals, Talbott also discusses the style in the context of Savannah's social life and its history as a major southern port. She covers not only the principles, methods, and materials of classical design, but also the manufacture, distribution, sale, and ownership of a wide range of functional and decorative objects. Classical Savannah is the companion volume to the Classical Savannah exhibition, which opened in the spring of 1995 at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah. Illustrating well over half of the items in the exhibit, and including a detailed checklist of the additional seventy objects not shown in the book, Classical Savannah is a valuable source for historians, designers, decorators, collectors, and anyone interested in this period of America's history.
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Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Banks and banking
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