Archive Style : Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890 /

This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American In...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kelsey, Robin, 1961-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Photographic surveying.
Geological surveys.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Surveying.
Phototopographie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Geological surveys > United States > History > 19th century.
Photographic surveying > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : riddles and premises
  • Arthur Schott : marking the Mexican boundary
  • Timothy H. O'Sullivan : surveys of the American West
  • C.C. Jones : the USGS investigation of the Charleston Earthquake
  • Conclusion : archive style.

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