Brady was a celebrated American photographer remembered for his work in the years before and during the American Civil War. He took his studio onto the battlefields and created over 10,000 glass-plate negatives using many photographers. His heritage is a remarkable collection, one of the first to show the grim horrors of war realistically.
Featuring most English terms with quick, clean definitions, this guide is designed to be easily read and understood by collectors of all levels. Illustrated clearly throughout, this philatelic reference presents the essence of the hobby without the clutter of country identifiers.
In 1906 J. P. Morgan offered Edward Curtis $75,000 to produce a series of books on the North American Indian. It would end up to be a big series--twenty volumes with 1,500 photographs. This book starts with the story of the chance meeting on Mount Rainier that let to Curtis' involvement on the Harriman Alaskan expedition, and ultimately, to the ...
This series is unique in that it combines biography and geography to tell the stories of remarkable individuals whose bold and often life-threatening journeys had a profound impact on our nation's history. Readers will travel along with them, experiencing the challenges they faced, as well as their accomplishments. The text is supported by ...
Unashamedly nostalgic and compulsively readable, The Way We Were series does exactly what the title suggests: It recaptures what life was like in each place covered in years gone by--particularly between the 1920s and 1970s. These books remind readers of the past through a rare collection of evocative photographs and the deft words of a ...
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