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79 produkter
Decoration of Houses
Av Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
507 kr
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Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated on the design of the author’s Massachusetts …
Landmarks of Rochester and Monroe County
A Guide to Neighborhoods and Villages
Av Paul Malo
Häftad, 1983
212 kr
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This beautiful book, with its more than 100 superb photographs and perceptive text, makes visible an awareness of the relationship of past to present, of old to new, that will give all readers, wherever they live, new eyes with which to see their own familiar streets.For the people in Rochester and …
Body, Boots, and Britches
Folktales, Ballads and Speech from Country New York
Häftad, 1979
219 kr
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A superb blend of good story-telling and sound scholarship this book provides a fascinating record of what "country New Yorkers" have had to say and sing about themselves as they made their way through three centuries. You'll find stories and songs about pioneers," Injun fighters," canallers, …
Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company
The Opening of Western New York
Häftad, 1979
219 kr
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In 1800, the Holland Land Company assigned surveyor Joseph Ellicott the task of selling at a profit 3.3 million acres of land west of the Genesee River in New York State. By 1821, when Ellicott’s career as Resident-Agent ended, the area’s population had grown from only a few settlers to over …
Adirondack Portraits
A Piece of Time
Av Jeanne Robert Foster, Noel Riedinger-Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
232 kr
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Adirondack Portraits: A Piece of Time is a moving poetic statement about the Adirondack wilderness and the people who fought the mountains’ relentless environment to settle there at the end of the nineteenth century. The book is also about the remarkable Jeanne Robert Foster (1879–1970). Born in …
Of Time and an Island
Av John Keats
Häftad, 1987
236 kr
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Thirty years ago, John Keats and his family purchased a two-acre island in the St. Lawrence River, at a time when boats were still lovingly crafted of wood and an island could be had for $4,000. Depending on the elements and on their own resourcefulness, the Keats family thrives in the rhythms of …
Potters and Potteries of New York State, 1650-1900
Häftad, 1987
472 kr
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Written by an experienced antiquarian, this book explores the history of utilitarian pottery production in New York State, beginning with the Dutch in Manhattan. The subject matter ranges across the entire state, from Long Island and the Mohawk and Hudson valleys, to the St. Lawrence, Lake Erie, …
Adirondack Cabin Country
Av Paul Schaefer, Noel Riedinger-Johnson
Häftad, 1993
230 kr
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Throughout his career as a photographer, writer and conservationist, Paul Schaefer has been the Adirondack's leading spokesperson and the driving force behind negotiating New York State's ""forever wild"" laws. In this autobiography, Schaefer recalls life in the mountains.
Forever Wild
A Cultural History of Wilderness in the Adirondacks
Häftad, 1994
219 kr
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In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and scholars, the travellers and sportsmen, the publicists and bureaucrats, who together have contributed to the wilderness aesthetic.
Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863
Av Robert Ernst
Häftad, 1994
219 kr
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This is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the Americanization of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the effects produced by church, school, foreign-language press and libraries - the methods by which the Democratic Party enlisted the immigrant vote.
Architecture in New York
A Photographic History
Häftad, 1995
311 kr
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In the many photographs magnificently reproduced in this collection, Andrews has captured the incredible range of the architecture of New York State, from Manhattan Island to Chautauqua County. Something of the scope of this work is indicated by the fact that A. J. Davis, Richard Upjohn, James …
River of Mountains
A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson
Av Peter Lourie
Häftad, 1998
232 kr
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This first-person narrative documents one man's adventure down the Hudson River by canoe - from its source at the peak of Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks to Battery Park.
Rural Hours
Häftad, 1995
232 kr
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Nature and the mid nineteenth-century American landscape is beautifully revealed in this journal of the seasons. Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter of the great American novelist, wrote this book in 1850, four years before Walden was published. She described it as her "simple record of those little …
Mother Donit Fore the Best
Correspondence of a Nineteenth-Century Orphan Asylum
Häftad, 1996
274 kr
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These letters from the Albany Orphan Asylum in New York demonstrate how institutions in the late 19th century provided a social service. The volume comprises letters from parents to their children and to the asylum superintendents, as well as letters from children placed out to indenture.
They're Off!
Horse Racing at Saratoga
Inbunden, 1995
481 kr
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This is the story of how one of America's first national resorts gave birth to the first national sport of horse racing. It introduces a parade of champions and their spectacular supporting characters.
Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution
Häftad, 2018
225 kr
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Moses Hazen, commander of the Second Canadian Reiment, was an unusual and influential man during the period of the American Revolution. The Tories who fled to Canada have received careful study, but little attention has been paid to the Canadians who came south to aid the colonists in their fight …
They're Off!
Horse Racing at Saratoga
Häftad, 1998
342 kr
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Built in 1864 as the nation's first horse racing facility, Saratoga (New York) racecourse is one of the sport's hallowed sites. This text details the development and social history of Saratoga the resort, historically a magnet for the wealthy and famous.
Scholar in the Wilderness
Francis Adrian Van Der Kemp
Häftad, 2018
225 kr
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When Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams: ""There is a Mr. Vanderkemp of New York, a correspondent, I believe, of yours, with whom I have exchanged some letters, without knowing who he is. Will you tell me?"" Adams replied: ""The biography of Mr. Vanderkemp would require a volume...My acquaintance …
Gardens of the Gilded Age
Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Homegrounds of New York State
Häftad, 2019
284 kr
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Houses and gardens created in America between 1860 and 1917 were ""modern"" manifestations of nineteenth century art, science, and industry, conveying cultural values in their form, function, style, and materials. Now Increasing public interest in the restoration of nineteenth-century properties …
Delaware and Hudson
Häftad, 1997
522 kr
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Here, in a pictorial history, Jim Shaughnessy turns an eloquent photographer's eye to the Delaware & Hudson, the line that began in 1823 as a canal system to transport Pennsylvania coal to New York State. The D&H extended from Montreal to the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania. It was active …
Rutland Road
Häftad, 1997
449 kr
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One would be challenged to find a railroad to compare scenically and historically with the Rutland Railroad. With Yankee persistence, it struggled for its existence in the snows of Vermont and northern New York for more than one hundred years. Running through territory amply covered by larger and …
Archer M. Huntington
Founder of the Hispanic Society of America
Inbunden, 2024
721 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City philanthropist, arts patron, and scholar Archer M. Huntington became the foremost collector and face of Spanish art in the United States with the founding of the Hispanic Society of America. This organization, which served as a bridge between …
Seneca Ray Stoddard
Transforming the Adirondack Wilderness in Text and Image
Häftad, 2024
382 kr
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Seneca Ray Stoddard’s photographic and literary work paralleled the era of exploration of this region as well as the early years of photography. It was during his lifetime—as a result of the changing perceptions of the wilderness—that the area first attracted artists, tourists, and summer …
Sensible Cook
Dutch Foodways in the Old and New World
Häftad, 1998
232 kr
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The most favored Dutch cookbook of the seventeenth century, The Sensible Cook (De Verstandige Kock) had a major impact on the foodways of the Dutch in the Netherlands and in their New World territories.As a part of the larger work, The Pleasurable Country Life, The Sensible Cook records the …
Back There Where the Past Was
A Small-Town Boyhood
Häftad, 1999
230 kr
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Charles Champlin's sentimental journey back through his boyhood in Hammondsport, New York. The author recreates the aura of life in a small town, examining small-town roots. He shares his childhood and provides a sense of all that we hold dear in our past.
