Iron Muse

Iron Muse
Author: Glenn Willumson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520955420

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.

The Iron Muse

The Iron Muse
Author: John Curtis Underwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1910
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

Chapter headings: The God in the Machine -- The Sea -- Women -- Science -- The City -- The Inner Life -- The West -- Polemics -- Varia -- Verities -- Envoy.

Military Construction Appropriations for 1974

Military Construction Appropriations for 1974
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1108
Release: 1973
Genre: United States
ISBN:

The American Catalogue

The American Catalogue
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1642
Release: 1911
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

American national trade bibliography.

American Iron, 1607-1900

American Iron, 1607-1900
Author: Robert B. Gordon
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781421435008

By mastering founding, fining, puddling, or bloom smelting, ironworkers gained a degree of control over their lives not easily attained by others.