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Currier & Ives' America : from a young nation to a great power
- Title
- Currier & Ives' America : from a young nation to a great power / Walton Rawls.
- Author
- Rawls, Walton H.
- Publication
- New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MDG+ (Currier) 16-3512 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Currier & Ives.
- Description
- 488 pages : illustrations (some color), plates; 32 cm
- Alternative Title
- Great book of Currier & Ives' America.
- Subject
- Note
- "All of the illustrations in this book, except one, come from the Harry T. Peters Collection ... They are reproduced through the courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York."--Title page verso.
- "A previous edition of this book was published under the title "The great book of Currier & Ives' America."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 488) and index.
- Contents
- Grand Central Depot for cheap and popular prints -- Novus Ordo Seclorum ("A new era is born") -- Proud and passionate city! Mettlesome, mad extravagant city! -- How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood -- Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence -- Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home -- Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! --- Go forth, under the open sky, and list to nature's teachings -- America is a poem in our eyes: its ample geography dazzles the imagination -- Never was such horseflesh as in those days on Long Island or in the city -- Ev'ry prospect pleases, and only man is vile -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.
- Call Number
- MDG+ (Currier) 16-3512
- ISBN
- 9780789212580
- 0789212587
- OCLC
- 914219122
- Author
- Rawls, Walton H., author.
- Title
- Currier & Ives' America : from a young nation to a great power / Walton Rawls.
- Publisher
- New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, [2015]
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 488) and index.
- Added Author
- Currier & Ives.
- Added Title
- Great book of Currier & Ives' America.
- Research Call Number
- MDG+ (Currier) 16-3512