كتاب
Iron muse: photographing the Transcontinental Railroad
| العنوان: | Iron muse: photographing the Transcontinental Railroad |
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| المؤلفون: | Willumson, Glenn Gardner. |
| سنة النشر: | 2013 |
| وصف مادي: | x, 242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Central Pacific Railway Company -- Photograph collections -- History., Union Pacific Railroad Company -- Photograph collections -- History., Photography of railroads -- United States -- History., Railroads -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. |
| Subject Person: | Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908., Russell, Andrew J. |
| الوصف: | "The construction of the transcontinental railroad (1865-1869) marked a milestone in United States history, symbolizing both the joining of the country's two coasts and the taming of its frontier wilderness by modern technology. But it was through the power of images--and especially the photograph--that the railroad attained its iconic status. Iron Muse provides a unique look at the production, distribution, and publication of images of the transcontinental railroad: from their use as an official record by the railroad corporations, to their reproduction in the illustrated press and travel guides, and finally to their adaptation to direct sales and albums in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tracing the complex relationships and occasional conflicts between photographer, publisher, and curator as they crafted the photographs' different meanings over time, Willumson provides a comprehensive portrayal of the creation and evolution of an important slice of American visual culture."--Publisher's description. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Preparing the ground -- Making the photographs -- Curating the archive -- Reproducing the image. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn818734501 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-520-27094-7 0-520-27094-0 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.013706047.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780520270947 0520270940 |
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