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Cambridge Ontario Part 1: Galt in Photos Book 1: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781494880026 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1784 the British Crown granted to the Six Nations Indians, in perpetuity, all the land along the Grand River six miles deep on each side of the river from its source to Lake Erie. The Indians, led by Joseph Brant, had the land surveyed in 1791 and divided into Indian Reserve lands as well as large tracts which they intended to sell to land developers. One such developer was the Honourable William Dickson who, in 1816, came into sole possession of 90,000 acres of land along the Grand River which later made up North and South Dumfries Townships. It was Mr. Dickson's intention to divide the...
In 1784 the British Crown granted to the Six Nations Indians, in perpetuity, all the land along the Grand River six miles deep on each side of the riv...
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62,15 zł |
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Cambridge Ontario Part 1: Galt in Photos Book 2: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781494880231 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1784 the British Crown granted to the Six Nations Indians, in perpetuity, all the land along the Grand River six miles deep on each side of the river from its source to Lake Erie. The Indians, led by Joseph Brant, had the land surveyed in 1791 and divided into Indian Reserve lands as well as large tracts which they intended to sell to land developers. One such developer was the Honourable William Dickson who, in 1816, came into sole possession of 90,000 acres of land along the Grand River which later made up North and South Dumfries Townships. Mr. Dickson's intention was to divide the land...
In 1784 the British Crown granted to the Six Nations Indians, in perpetuity, all the land along the Grand River six miles deep on each side of the riv...
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53,11 zł |
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Cambridge Ontario Part 2: Preston in Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781494880408 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Erb, the founder of Preston, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a Mennonite of Swiss ancestry. He came to Upper Canada in 1805, acquired 7,500 acres of land from the German Land Company and settled on the site of Preston where the Grand and Speed Rivers meet. He built a sawmill and a gristmill and the community grew around them. The town was originally known as "Cambridge Mills" and was later renamed after Preston, England. Preston's location on the Great Road into the interior of the province made it a natural stop for travellers and with its eight hotels and taverns attracted...
John Erb, the founder of Preston, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a Mennonite of Swiss ancestry. He came to Upper Canada in 1805, acquired...
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58,72 zł |
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Cambridge Ontario Part 3: Hespeler and Blair Village in Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781494880545 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blair Village The Bowman and Bechtel families are credited with starting the development of the village of Blair. Joseph Bowman built the first dam in the village, located on Bowman Creek, and erected the area's first sawmill, the first industrial enterprise in the village. Henry Bechtel built the Durham Flour Mill in the early 1830s. Blair Village became part of Preston in 1969 and became part of Cambridge in 1973. Hespeler This area was originally part of the land granted to the Six Nations Indians by the British Crown in 1784. The Indians led by Joseph Brant sold part of their block of...
Blair Village The Bowman and Bechtel families are credited with starting the development of the village of Blair. Joseph Bowman built the first dam in...
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54,20 zł |
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A Journey To Remember ... And Other Musings: One Photographer's View of the Present, To Reveal The Past
ISBN: 9780979846335 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about a journey. A journey that takes you into the past through photographic images of present items that have been discarded, no longer needed, no longer useful, or technologically challenged. "Journey To Remember ...And Other Musings" is about endings. Whether it is a building, a car or truck, a pedal car or any other item, they most often start useful and beautiful. Somewhere along the line we have become a throw-away society. If we do not need it any longer, it stops working, or a myriad of other reasons, we just hoard it, throw it away, stop using it, put it in the back...
This is a book about a journey. A journey that takes you into the past through photographic images of present items that have been discarded, no longe...
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103,74 zł |
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Photography and Its Origins
ISBN: 9780415722896 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of first photographs and proclamations of photography s death in the digital age, scholars have been rethinking who and what invented the medium.
"Photography and Its Origins" reflects on this interest in photography s beginnings by reframing it in critical and specifically historiographical terms. How and why do we write about the origins of the medium? Whom or what do we rely on to construct those narratives? What s at stake in choosing to tell stories of... Recent decades have seen a flourishing interest in and speculation about the origins of photography. Spurred by rediscoveries of first photographs and...
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700,25 zł |
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Photography; Including the Daguerreotype, Calotype, Chrysotype, &c.: Familiarly Explained
ISBN: 9781470174477 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The art of Photography is one of the most pleasing and curious results of chemical philosophy, and certainly not one of the least useful. Those who have beheld on the field of a camera obscura the minutely perfect reflection of a landscape, with its rivulet, its well-clad trees, and its animated groups, must have regretted that it was but a shadow doomed to exist only for a moment, while the light shone or the instrument remained stationary. Photography, however, enables us to render permanent the objects thus reflected. To accomplish this, no tedious or troublesome process is necessary;...
The art of Photography is one of the most pleasing and curious results of chemical philosophy, and certainly not one of the least useful. Those who ha...
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32,10 zł |
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A Full Description of the Daguerreotype Process: : As Published by M. Daguerre.
ISBN: 9781470174699 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We give below a description of this most interesting discovery, and take great pleasure in stating that several gentlemen of this city, among whom, we may name Dr. Chilton, President Morse, and Professor Draper, have fully succeeded in procuring fine specimens of photogenic drawing, by means of this instrument. Translated from the original paper of L. J. M. Daguerre, (the inventor, ) by J. S. MEMES, L.L.D
We give below a description of this most interesting discovery, and take great pleasure in stating that several gentlemen of this city, among whom, we...
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36,61 zł |
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Kitchener Ontario Book 1 in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781495485350 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kitchener is located in Southwestern Ontario in the Grand River Valley. The settlement's first name, Sand Hills, is an accurate description of the higher points of the Waterloo Moraine which snakes its way through the region and holds a significant quantity of artesian wells from which the city derives most of its drinking water. In 1784, the land that Kitchener was built upon was an area of 240,000 hectares of land given to the Six Nations by the British as a gift for their allegiance during the American Revolution. The Six Nations sold 38,000 hectares of this land to Loyalist Colonel...
Kitchener is located in Southwestern Ontario in the Grand River Valley. The settlement's first name, Sand Hills, is an accurate description of the hig...
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54,20 zł |
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Simcoe Ontario in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781495485732 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Simcoe is a town in Southwestern Ontario located near Lake Erie at the junction of Highways 3 and 24, south of Brantford. From Hamilton take Highway 6 to Simcoe. Simcoe was founded in 1795 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe. He gave a grant to Aaron Culver, one of the earliest settlers, with the condition that he was to build mills. In 1801 he built a saw mill and a few years later added a grist mill. The combined operation known as Union Mill was instrumental in the development of Simcoe. By 1812 a hamlet had grown up around the mills. The mills were burnt and the adjacent houses...
Simcoe is a town in Southwestern Ontario located near Lake Erie at the junction of Highways 3 and 24, south of Brantford. From Hamilton take Highway 6...
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72,28 zł |
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Orangeville Ontario Beginnings in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781495485916 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Corbit acquired land in the area in 1829 and is one of the earliest settlers. Spring Brook (also called Mill Creek), a tributary of the Credit River, provided water for power for several mills located downstream. Seneca Ketchum and George Grigg arrived soon after. By 1844 when Orange Lawrence and his wife Sarah arrived from Connecticut, a well-established community called Grigg's Mill existed beside Mill Creek. Orange Lawrence helped to develop the community, laying out the southeast part of town; he opened a general store and a tavern, built a second mill, founded the first school, and...
John Corbit acquired land in the area in 1829 and is one of the earliest settlers. Spring Brook (also called Mill Creek), a tributary of the Credit Ri...
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56,46 zł |
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Shelburne Ontario in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781495976865 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Settlement of Melancthon Township began in the late 1840s at the time of the construction of the Toronto-Sydenham Road. By the 1860s settlers had moved into the Shelburne area and in 1865 William Jelly, one of the community's earliest inhabitants, opened the British Canadian Hotel commonly known as Jelly's Tavern. Within a year, the settlement included a post office named Shelburne, after the Earl of Shelburne of Ireland. In 1872, William and his brother John surveyed a village plot in anticipation of the arrival of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway. Rapid economic growth followed....
Settlement of Melancthon Township began in the late 1840s at the time of the construction of the Toronto-Sydenham Road. By the 1860s settlers had move...
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45,16 zł |
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Alton, Mono and Caledon Ontario in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781495977688 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caledon The County of Peel was created in 1805 following the purchase by the British Crown of the southern part of the Mississauga Tract on the shore of Lake Ontario. Surveyed in 1818-1819, the townships of Albion, Caledon and Chinguacousy were opened for settlement in 1820. Early settlements in the townships developed around water-powered mill sites on the Credit and Humber rivers, and at various crossroads. The arrival of the Toronto Grey & Bruce, Hamilton & Northwestern and Credit Valley railways in the 1870s spurred further settlements at various junctions. Development was also influenced...
Caledon The County of Peel was created in 1805 following the purchase by the British Crown of the southern part of the Mississauga Tract on the shore ...
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54,20 zł |
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Klondike in Farbe
ISBN: 9781927691090 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Klondike war der letzte grosse Goldrausch und diese Sammlung von klassischen Fotografien erzahlt seine Geschichte auf eine erfrischend einzigartige Weise. Lebendige und realistische Farben wurden sorgfaltig mit modernen digitalen Techniken aufgenommen. Die retuschierten Fotografien sind spektakular und sehen zeitgemass. Klondike in Farbe bietet ein neues Verstandnis von diesem epischen Ereignis."
Klondike war der letzte grosse Goldrausch und diese Sammlung von klassischen Fotografien erzahlt seine Geschichte auf eine erfrischend einzigartige We...
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67,81 zł |
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Reasoned and Unreasoned Images: The Photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey
ISBN: 9780271053264 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, photography underwent one of the most momentous transformations in its history, a renegotiation of the camera's relationship to the visible world. Reasoned and Unreasoned Images considers in detail the work of three photographic investigators who developed new uses for the medium that centered on "the photography of the invisible" Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Bertillon attempted to establish a "science of identity" by making photographic records of criminal bodies. Galton may be said to have taken... In the last decades of the nineteenth century, photography underwent one of the most momentous transformations in its history, a renegotiation of t... |
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190,83 zł |
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Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News
ISBN: 9781472526496 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of news pictures in their many forms. For the first time, this volume defines what counts as a news picture, how pictures are selected and distributed, where they are seen and how we critique and value them. Presenting the best new thinking on this fascinating topic, this book considers the... Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers... |
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186,68 zł |
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Kitchener Ontario Book 2 in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781495485534 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kitchener is located in Southwestern in the Grand River Valley. The settlement's first name, Sandhills, is an accurate description of the higher points of the Waterloo Moraine which snakes its way through the region and holds a significant quantity of artesian wells from which the city derives most of its drinking water. In 1784, the land that Kitchener was built upon was an area of 240,000 hectares of land given to the Six Nations by the British as a gift for their allegiance during the American Revolution. The Six Nations sold 38,000 hectares of this land to Loyalist Colonel Richard...
Kitchener is located in Southwestern in the Grand River Valley. The settlement's first name, Sandhills, is an accurate description of the higher point...
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63,24 zł |
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Orangeville Ontario on Broadway in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781495486098 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Corbit acquired land in the area in 1829 and is one of the earliest settlers. Spring Brook (also called Mill Creek), a tributary of the Credit River, provided water for power for several mills located downstream. Seneca Ketchum and George Grigg arrived soon after. By 1844 when Orange Lawrence and his wife Sarah arrived from Connecticut, a well-established community called Grigg's Mill existed beside Mill Creek. Orange Lawrence helped to develop the community, laying out the southeast part of town; he opened a general store and a tavern, built a second mill, founded the first school, and...
John Corbit acquired land in the area in 1829 and is one of the earliest settlers. Spring Brook (also called Mill Creek), a tributary of the Credit Ri...
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51,93 zł |
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Steam Leviathans: British Railways steam - the final years
ISBN: 9781494758417 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Steam Leviathans' is a book of the author's photographs depicting the last years of mainline steam in the UK. All images are captured between 1961 and 1968. Although the images are mostly in monochrome, colour photographs are also included.
'Steam Leviathans' is a book of the author's photographs depicting the last years of mainline steam in the UK. All images are captured between 1961 an...
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99,80 zł |
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London Ontario in Colour Photos: Saving Our History One Photo at a Time
ISBN: 9781496132345 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. London, Ontario in Colour Photos, Saving Our History One Photo at a Time is the subject of Book 1 in the Cruising Ontario series of books of photographs of towns and cities in Ontario. The photos show the architecture and design of old buildings, many that are over 100 years old. Descriptions of the buildings and background information with the pictures now in full colour add greatly to the book. It is a visual experience to enjoy. London is the home of Linda, a very good friend of Barbara's. In 1793 on the River Thames, Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe selected a site for the capital...
London, Ontario in Colour Photos, Saving Our History One Photo at a Time is the subject of Book 1 in the Cruising Ontario series of books of photograp...
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75,72 zł |
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