The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs - Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920 - Joan W. Gandy
Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920
KORTE INHOUD
Life on the Mississippi in the heyday of the steamboat lives in our imaginations through the artistry of Mark Twain, Edna Ferber, and Hollywood films, or perhaps a glimpse of a salvaged riverboat living out its last years as a theme restaurant. Surely the Mississippi steamboat era is among the most colorful and romantic in our history. But what was it really like, beyond our secondhand notions of stalwart river pilots, wayward boys and runaway slaves, of gamblers in tall hats and ladies in hoopskirts, of cotton, cakewalks, and carpetbaggers.
This extraordinary book of recently discovered photographs, taken by a father and son who were professional photographers in Natchez, Mississippi, brings us for the first time a stunning array of images of steamboat life as it really was ? from its glory days in the post-Civil War era to its demise in the years immediately following World War I.
The photographers are Henry Norman and his son Earl. With boundless enthusiasm and curiosity, and the consummate skills of pictori...
This extraordinary book of recently discovered photographs, taken by a father and son who were professional photographers in Natchez, Mississippi, brings us for the first time a stunning array of images of steamboat life as it really was ? from its glory days in the post-Civil War era to its demise in the years immediately following World War I.
The photographers are Henry Norman and his son Earl. With boundless enthusiasm and curiosity, and the consummate skills of pictori...
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1987Uitgever: Dover Publications Inc.120 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0486252604ISBN-13: 9780486252605Koop dit boek tweedehands
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1987, Paperback, small damage on cover, good copy [Auteur: Joan W. Gandy] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Dover Publications Inc.] [Jaar: 1987] [Titel: The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs - Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920]
