Full DescriptionAmerican Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 |
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| Title: | American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 |
| Alternate Title: | ListSets setSpec: American Notes: Travels in America (books) |
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| Description: | American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites. Although many of the authors represented in American Notes are not widely known, the collection includes works by major figures such as Matthew Arnold, Fredrika Bremer, William Cullen Bryant, François-René de Chateaubriand, William Cobbett, James Fenimore Cooper, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Sir Charles Lyell, William Lyon Mackenzie, André Michaux, Thomas Nuttall, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The narratives in American Notes therefore range from the unjustly neglected to the justly famous, and from classics of the genre to undiscovered gems. Together, they build a mosaic portrait of a young nation. |
| Subjects: |
Travel and Transportation Language Arts Social Studies Description and travel. Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913. United States--Description and travel. United States--History. United States--Social life and customs. United States--Social conditions. Indians of North America. |
| DLF-specific Subjects: | American Culture |
| Geographic Coverage: | North America (continent) |
| Time Period: |
Early 20th Century (1901-1933) Late 19th Century (1868-1900) Middle 19th Century (1834-1867) Early 19th Century (1801-1833) Late 18th Century (1768-1800) Middle 18th Century (1734-1767) Modern (1701-present) |
| Objects Represented: |
Books and pamphlets Narratives |
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image/jpeg image/tiff text/html |
| Language: | eng |
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| Copyright & IP rights: | The Library of Congress is providing access to these materials for educational and research purposes. The written permission of the copyright owners and other rights holders (such as holders of publicity and /or privacy rights) is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. Note that there may be U.S. copyright protection (see Title 17, U.S.C.) or other restrictions in these materials, and there may be content protected by copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. However, the Library is not aware of any copyrights or other rights associated with this material. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with any person intending to use an item. |
| Size: | 254 |
| Frequency of additions: | Irregularly |
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| This Record Last Updated By: | khage@umich.edu |
| This Record Last Updated On: | 4/23/2008 12:50:45 PM |
| Hosting Institution: | Library of Congress |
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| Notes: | 253 volumes with rekeyed text in SGML markup and page images. Page images are bitonal TIFFs or grayscale/color JPEG + smaller GIFs. A few oversize foldouts are grayscale/color TIFFS with MrSID derivatives. |
| Projects Associated with Digital Collection | |
| Title of Project: | Aquifer American Social History Online |
| Project URL: |
http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/
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