Main entry:

Taft, Robert, 1894-1955.

Title & Author:

Photography and the American scene : a social history, 1839-1889 / Robert Taft.

Publication:

New York : Macmillan Co., 1938.

Description:

x, 546 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm

Notes:
"First printing."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Their exquisite perfection almost transcends the bounds of sober belief" -- First portraits and first galleries -- The era of the daguerreotype -- Daguerreotypes and the public -- Daguerreotypy at its zenith -- Photography -- The ambrotype -- The family album -- The tintype -- The stereoscope -- "Boston as the eagle and the wild goose see it" -- Real amateurs -- Civil War photographers -- Photographing the frontier : first phase -- Photographing the frontier : second phase -- The cabinet photograph -- Kurtz, Sarony and Mora -- A new age -- The flexible film -- Zoopraxiscopes and less wordy innovations -- Photography and the pictorial press.

Subject:

Photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
Photography.
United States History 1783-1865.
United States History 1865-1898.
États-Unis Histoire 1783-1865.
États-Unis Histoire 1865-1898.
United States.
1939-1889

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 12121
Call No.: TR23.T3 (ID:87-B14410)
Status: Available