Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks – serie
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Canals
Inbunden, 2004
755 kr
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Canals describes the development of these waterways in their heyday and shows the varied structures they engendered. This richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system provides capsule tours of thirty-five canals and a journey along two of the most famous: the Chesapeake & …
Theaters
2005
863 kr
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This visual sourcebook traces the development of its colorful and varied forms as they developed in early America, on the western frontier, and in cities from coast to coast. The first comprehensive study of American theaters, it illustrates their wide range from raucous music halls to vaudeville, …
Dams
2010
958 kr
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Dams are a monumental presence on the American landscape. This newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress series shows that the history of dam development is characterized by invention and innovation, and parallels that of the United States. It emphasizes the unique design and engineering …
Lighthouses
2006
863 kr
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It covers lighthouses from all parts of the UnitedStates from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s, when control ofthe lighthouses was transferred to the Coast Guard and after which fewnew ones were constructed. Images of lighthouses from coast to coast provide examples of striking design and …
Public Markets
Inbunden, 2008
732 kr
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The public market is a worldwide urban phenomenon with a tradition as old as cities themselves, continuing today in the greenmarket movement. Surveyed here by type are open-air marketplaces, street markets, street vendors, markets that occupy the ground floor of public buildings, open-sided sheds …
Cemeteries
Inbunden, 2010
746 kr
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The newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress takes readers on a visual journey from early churchyards and family plots to the establishment of the nation's first rural cemeteries of the nineteenth century, to the expansive memorial parks and 'green' burials of today. With more than 600 …
Eero Saarinen
Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive
Av David G. De Long, C. Ford Peatross
Inbunden, 2008
880 kr
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Eero Saarinen and Balthazar Korab constitute a unique team in the history of architecture: Saarinen, the mid-twentieth-century architect who challenged the architectural conventions of his time; and Korab, an architect in Saarinen's office whose perceptive photographs reveal the brilliance of …
