Print the legend : photography and the American West / Martha A. Sandweiss.

Main entry:

Sandweiss, Martha A.

Title & Author:

Print the legend : photography and the American West / Martha A. Sandweiss.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Yale Western Americana series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-390) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Picture stories : photography and the nineteenth-century West -- Spirit is wanting : photography and the Mexican-American War -- Of instruction for their faithfulness : panoramas, Indian galleries, and Western daguerreotypes -- Panorama of the country : government enterprise, daguerreotypes, and the exploration of the Far West -- Attempt has not met with distinguished success : early wet-plate photography and Western exploration -- Westward the course of empire : photography and the invention of an American future -- Momentoes of the race : photography and the American Indian -- Print the legend : Western photography and the illustrated book -- Epilogue : Pictures as history and memory : photography and the story of the Western past.

Summary:

"Resurrecting scores of little-known images of the nineteenth-century American West, Print the Legend offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, missing photographs, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book tells the story of how Americans first came to understand western photographs and, consequently, to envision their expanding nation."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0300095228 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780300095227 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0300103158
9780300103151

Subject:

Photography West (U.S.) History.
Photography
Fotografie
Foto's.
Photographie.
West United States
USA Weststaaten
1839-1899

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works.

Added entries:

Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238642
Call No.: BIB 168517
Status: Available

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