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Alabama Illustrated
Contributor(s): Baggett, James L. (Text by (Art, Photo Books)), Scouten Bates, Kelsey (Text by (Art, Photo Books)), Birmingham Public Libraries (Photographer)

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 ISBN: 1684422760     ISBN-13: 9781684422760
Publisher: Turner
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
- Art | American - General
- Social Science | Media Studies
Dewey: 976.1
Series: Historic Photos
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 8.5" W x 8.5" L (1.09 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Geographic Orientation - Alabama
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region - South
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Publisher Description:
In the nineteenth century, the people of Alabama relied on newspapers to learn about the world outside their own hometowns. Prior to the 1890s, the technology did not exist to economically publish photographs in newspapers, so some publishers employed artists to draw and engrave images of places, events, and people. Many of these engraved illustrations, which accompanied news stories, poems, and short fiction, are impressive for their detail and artistic quality. From the 1850s to the 1890s, more than 250 engraved images of Alabama were published in national and international illustrated newspapers. Alabama Illustrated contains nearly 50 of those illustrations from five nineteenth-century newspapers such as Harper's Weekly. These striking black-and-white images depict city and country scenes of everything from politics and civil war to agriculture, industry, entertainment, and everyday life, providing readers passionate about history and art a unique insight into Alabama's rich cultural past.
 
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