The Pelican Guide to Maryland
Author : Block, Victor
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Maryland
ISBN : 9781455610242
Author : Block, Victor
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Maryland
ISBN : 9781455610242
Author : Victor Block
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780882896014
Author :
Publisher : In the Hands of a Child
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1948
Category :
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Author : James D. Kornwolf
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801859861
Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.
Author : Michael Burden
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0807174467
The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830–1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, tenor William Harrison, hired Reiff, then freelancing in New York, to serve as musical director and conductor for the company’s American itinerary. The grueling tour began in November 1855 in Boston and then proceeded to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, where, after a three-week engagement, the company boarded a paddle steamer bound for New Orleans. It was at that point that Reiff started to keep his diary. Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Reiff’s diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled the country by river and rail. Surprisingly, Reiff comments little on the Pyne-Harrison performances themselves, although he does visit the theaters in the river towns, including New Orleans, where he spends evenings both at the French Opera and at the Gaiety. Instead, Reiff focuses his attention on other passengers, on the mechanics of the journey, on the landscape, and on events he encounters, including the 1856 Mardi Gras and the unveiling of the statue of Andrew Jackson in New Orleans's Jackson Square. Reiff is clearly captivated by the river towns and their residents, including the enslaved, whom he encountered whenever the boat tied up. Running throughout the journal is a thread of anxiety, for, apart from the typical dangers of a river trip, the winter of 1855–1856 was one of the coldest of the century, and the steamer had difficulties with river ice. Historians have used Reiff’s journal as source material, but until now the entire text, which is archived in Louisiana State University’s Special Collections in Hill Memorial Library, has only been available in its original state. As a primary source, the published journal will have broad appeal to historians and other readers interested in antebellum riverboat travel, highbrow entertainment, and the people and places of the South.
Author : Granville O'Neal Allen
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN :
Robert Allin was born in Ireland in 1674. He immigrated to America in 1690 and settled at Port Tobacco, Maryland. His grandson, Rhody/ Rhoda [John Rhodam?] Allen was born ca. 1742, probably in Charles or Dorchester County, Maryland. He married at least twice and was the father of a large family. The family probably lived for awhile in Stafford County, Virginia, and migrated to Edgecomb County, North Carolina, ca. 1773. They migrated to Sumner County, Tennessee, ca. 1792; and to Jefferson County, Illinois, in 1820. Descendants listed lived in Illinois, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and elsewhere.
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780516210391
Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of Maryland.
Author : George McDonald
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1988-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780139572340
Frommer makes traveling on a budget easy. This thoroughly researched, detailed and comprehensive guide includes state-by-state information, with special coverage given to 15 of the most visited U.S. cities.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Subject catalogs
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 2476 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN :