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Among Unknown Tribes

Rediscovering the Photographs of Explorer Carl Lumholtz

By: Bill Broyles,Ann Christine Eek,Phyllis La Farge,Richard Laugharn,Eugenia Macías Guzmán

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Among Unknown Tribes

Rediscovering the Photographs of Explorer Carl Lumholtz

By: Bill Broyles,Ann Christine Eek,Phyllis La Farge,Richard Laugharn,Eugenia Macías Guzmán

Internationally renowned as an exciting guide to unknown peoples and places, Norwegian Carl Lumholtz was a Victorian-era explorer, anthropologist, natural scientist, writer, and photographer who worked in Australia, Mexico, and Borneo. His photographs of the Tarahumara, Huichol, Cora, Tepehuan, Southern Pima, and Tohono O’odham tribes of Mexico and southwest Arizona were among the very first taken of these cultures and still provide the best photographic record of them at the turn of the twentieth century. Lumholtz published his photographs in several books, including Unknown Mexico and New Trails in Mexico, but, because photographic publishing was then in its infancy, most of the images were poorly printed, badly cropped, or reworked by “illustrators” using crude techniques. Among Unknown Tribes presents more than two hundred of Lumholtz’s best photographs—many never before published—from the archives of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway. The images are newly scanned, most from the original negatives, and printed uncropped, disclosing a wealth of previously hidden detail. Each photograph is fully identified and often amplified by Lumholtz’s own notes and captions. Accompanying the images are essays and photo notes that survey Lumholtz’s career and legacy, as well as what his photographs reveal about the “unknown tribes.” By giving Lumholtz’s photographs the high-quality reproduction they deserve, Among Unknown Tribes honors not only the Norwegian explorer but also the native peoples who continue to struggle for recognition and justice as they actively engage in the traditional customs that Lumholtz recorded.

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University of Texas Press

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0292754655

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9780292754652

Explorer's Guide Rhode Island (Sixth Edition)

By: Phyllis Méras,Katherine Imbrie

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Explorer's Guide Rhode Island (Sixth Edition)

By: Phyllis Méras,Katherine Imbrie

An totally updated and revised edition to the most thorough guide to the Ocean State. Diminutive Rhode Island offers great diversity. Explore more than 400 miles of sandy beaches and rocky headlands, the splendid historic mansions of Newport, and the fine restaurants of Providence’s Federal Hill; enjoy the tranquil beauty of Block Island and fascinating museums and historic sites. Veteran travel writers Méras and Imbrie capture it all in this revised and expanded edition.

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393

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The Countryman Press

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1581577869

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9781581577860

The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

By: Phyllis Lee Levin

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The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

By: Phyllis Lee Levin

A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only "The Greatest Traveler of His Age," but his country's most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy's world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early and late Napoleonic Age. As his diplomat father's adolescent clerk and secretary, he met everyone who was anyone in Europe, including America's own luminaries and founding fathers, Franklin and Jefferson. All this made coming back to America a great challenge. But though he was determined to make his own career he was soon embarked, at Washington's appointment, on his phenomenal work abroad, as well as on a deeply troubled though loving and enduring marriage. But through all the emotional turmoil, he dedicated his life to serving his country. At 50, he returned to America to serve as Secretary of State to President Monroe. He was inaugurated President in 1824, after which he served as a stirring defender of the slaves of the Amistad rebellion and as a member of the House of Representatives from 1831 until his death in 1848. In The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams, Phyllis Lee Levin provides the deeply researched and beautifully written definitive biography of one of the most fascinating and towering early Americans.

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503

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Macmillan + ORM

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1137474629

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9781137474629

Gilded New York

Design, Fashion, and Society

By: Phyllis Magidson,Susan Johnson,Thomas Mellins

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Gilded New York

Design, Fashion, and Society

By: Phyllis Magidson,Susan Johnson,Thomas Mellins

The Gilded Years of the late nineteenth century were a vital and glamorous era in New York City as families of great fortune sought to demonstrate their new position by building vast Fifth Avenue mansions filled with precious objects and important painting collections and hosting elaborate fetes and balls. This is the moment of Mrs. Astor’s “Four Hundred,” the rise of the Vanderbilts and Morgans, Maison Worth, Tiffany & Co., Duveen, and Allard. Concurrently these families became New York’s first cultural philanthropists, supporting the fledgling Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera, among many institutions founded during this period. A collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York, Gilded New York examines the social and cultural history of these years, focusing on interior design and decorative arts, fashion and jewelry, and the publications that were the progenitors of today’s shelter magazines.

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The Monacelli Press, LLC

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158093367X

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9781580933674

Haunted by Home

The Life and Letters of Lynn Riggs

By: Phyllis Cole Braunlich

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Haunted by Home

The Life and Letters of Lynn Riggs

By: Phyllis Cole Braunlich

Phyllis Cole Braunlich sketches the life story of Lynn Riggs (18991954), the playwright best known as the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, the play that formed the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! Today Riggs is recognized as one of the twentieth century’s most innovative playwrights. Santa Fe, Hollywood, New York, and Chapel Hill: these were the cities that Lynn Riggs, “father of the folk play,” called home, along with eastern Oklahoma, the scene of his memorable re-creations of Oklahoma Territory before statehood. Riggs traveled widely to make his living and his fame, and along the way he earned the friendship of many avant-garde writers and successful theatre people of his time. This biography is also a chronicle of literary and café society on both coasts and in New Mexico during the 1920s, ‘30s, and ‘40s.

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252

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806135107

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9780806135106

Marc Simmons of New Mexico

Maverick Historian

By: Phyllis S. Morgan

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Marc Simmons of New Mexico

Maverick Historian

By: Phyllis S. Morgan

A biography and a complete bibliography of New Mexico's leading independent historian.

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404

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UNM Press

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0826335241

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9780826335241

The Irwin Investor's Handbook, 1994

By: Phyllis S. Pierce

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The Irwin Investor's Handbook, 1994

By: Phyllis S. Pierce

Investors and financial planners rely on each new edition of this handbook to help them make accurate calculations for capital gains, dividends, yields, and returns on investments. It's the only complete hardcopy source of market statistics that includes high, low, and 1993 year-end-closing prices from the NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ, and major foreign exhanges, plus important price information on bonds and mutual funds.

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Irwin Professional Publishing

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0786302119

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9780786302116

Among Unknown Tribes

Rediscovering the Photographs of Explorer Carl Lumholtz

By: Bill Broyles,Ann Christine Eek,Phyllis La Farge,Richard Laugharn,Eugenia Macías Guzmán

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Among Unknown Tribes

Rediscovering the Photographs of Explorer Carl Lumholtz

By: Bill Broyles,Ann Christine Eek,Phyllis La Farge,Richard Laugharn,Eugenia Macías Guzmán

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University of Texas Press

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0292754655

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Granny's Fish Story

By: Phyllis La Farge

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Granny's Fish Story

By: Phyllis La Farge

Julie introduces her friend Sarah to the ways of the country during a visit to her grandmother's house in the woods.

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Book's by Phyllis La Farge

Among Unknown Tribes

Among Unknown Tribes

Explorer's Guide Rhode Island (Sixth Edition)

Explorer's Guide Rhode Island (Sixth Edition)

The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

Gilded New York

Gilded New York

Haunted by Home

Haunted by Home

Marc Simmons of New Mexico

Marc Simmons of New Mexico

The Irwin Investor's Handbook, 1994

The Irwin Investor's Handbook, 1994

Among Unknown Tribes

Among Unknown Tribes

Granny's Fish Story

Granny's Fish Story

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