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Camera Hunter
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Author : James McCommons
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2019
Camera Hunter written by James McCommons and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Legislators categories.
Whitefish Lake -- Pittsburgh roots -- Boyhood days in Michigan -- School days for blue bloods -- Camera hunting -- Pennsylvania politics -- The great bird mystery -- Camp life and camera traps -- A progressive goes to Washington -- The National Geographic Society -- Ormond Beach -- Bahamas, Mexico -- Newfoundland and nature fakers -- Eminent personalities -- Yellowstone and the Shiras moose -- The Kenai Peninsula -- Roosevelt-Newett Libel Trial -- The crusade to save birds -- The Shiras bear -- Gatun Lake and Panama -- The bullet is on the way -- The bird treaty -- Yellowstone Dam fight -- Kaibab Plateau -- Final bird battles -- The big book -- Last days.
George Shiras
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Author : Jean-Christophe Bailly
language : en
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
Release Date : 2015
George Shiras written by Jean-Christophe Bailly and has been published by Editions Xavier Barral this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Night photography categories.
Though sometimes dubbed "the first wildlife photographer," George Shiras is not a prominent name in the history of photography. While his photos were shown at the Paris World Fair of 1900, Shiras--also a lawyer and politician--did not consider himself an artist; his goal was, above all, to document wildlife from the pre-environmental perspective to which he dedicated his life. In 1893, Shiras perfected the procedure of nocturnal flash photography in various regions of the US and Canada. It was in contact with hunters--and also with Native American guides or trappers--that he became initiated in the ways of wildlife, eventually "exchanging the rifle for the camera," as he himself put it. Despite his aesthetic innocence, Shiras succeeded in capturing the first night-time wildlife photos ever created, thanks to both his use of flash photography and camera-trap equipment. This gorgeous hardcover compiles his prescient nocturnal photography. George Shiras III (1859-1942) was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1889 and 1890 and was elected to the 58th Congress. After his time in Congress, Shiras became engaged in biological research and wildlife photography; he was a member of the Boone and Crockett Club, a conservation organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt. In 1935, he published a two-volume set of over 960 of his wildlife photographs with the National Geographic Society.
Camera Hunter
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Author : James H. McCommons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05
Camera Hunter written by James H. McCommons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Selected as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan In 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic. Taken with crude equipment, the black-and-white photographs featured leaping whitetail deer, a beaver gnawing on a tree, and a snowy owl perched along the shore of a lake in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The pictures, stunning in detail and composition, celebrated American wildlife at a time when many species were going extinct because of habitat loss and unrestrained hunting. As a congressman and lawyer, Shiras joined forces with his friend Theodore Roosevelt and scientists in Washington, DC, who shaped the conservation movement during the Progressive Era. His legal and legislative efforts culminated with the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Camera Hunter recounts Shiras's life and craft as he traveled to wild country in North America, refined his trail-camera techniques, and advocated for the protection of wildlife. This biography serves as an important record of Shiras's accomplishments as a visual artist, wildlife conservationist, adventurer, and legislator.
Justice George Shiras Jr Of Pittsburgh Associate Justice Of The United States Supreme Court 1892 1903
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Author : George Shiras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Justice George Shiras Jr Of Pittsburgh Associate Justice Of The United States Supreme Court 1892 1903 written by George Shiras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Judges categories.
Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania
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Author : John Woolf Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Release Date : 2004
Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania written by John Woolf Jordan and has been published by Genealogical Publishing Com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Pennsylvania categories.
Of Time And Judicial Behavior
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Author : Drew Noble Lanier
language : en
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 2003
Of Time And Judicial Behavior written by Drew Noble Lanier and has been published by Susquehanna University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This study examines the agenda setting and decision making behavior of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1888 to 1997. The study finds that economics decisions dominated the Court's docket up until the 1950s, when civil liberties cases became more prominent, and judicial power decisions remained relatively constant.
Hunting Wild Life With Camera And Flashlight
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Author : George Shiras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Hunting Wild Life With Camera And Flashlight written by George Shiras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Animals categories.
Supreme Court Justices
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Author : Timothy L. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Supreme Court Justices written by Timothy L. Hall and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Federal government categories.
Presents an alphabetical listing of Supreme Court justices with a short biography on each person.
The Barrier Islands
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Author : Curtis J. Badger
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 1989
The Barrier Islands written by Curtis J. Badger and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
An eloquent record of island life off the coast of Virginia a century ago, when hunters and watermen harvested the riches in marsh and shoal and sportsmen came to fish the sea and relax on the beaches. This handsome book captures the spirit of those days. Curtis Badger and Rich Kellam conducted exhaustive research, interviewed descendants of old islanders, and collected over 300 photographs to tell the story of the generations who lived, worked, and played on the Barrier Islands.The most complete history of life on the Barrier Islands Filled with vintage photographs
The Life And Songs Of Stephen Foster
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Author : JoAnne O'Connell
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-09-29
The Life And Songs Of Stephen Foster written by JoAnne O'Connell and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with Music categories.
The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. Once revered the world over, Foster’s plantation songs, like “Old Folks at Home” and “My Old Kentucky Home,” fell from grace in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement due to their controversial lyrics. Foster embraced the minstrel tradition for a brief time, refining it and infusing his songs with sympathy for slaves, before abandoning the genre for respectable parlor music. The youngest child in a large family, he grew up in the shadows of a successful older brother and his president brother-in-law, James Buchanan, and walked a fine line between the family’s conservative politics and his own pro-Lincoln sentiments. Foster lived most of his life just outside of industrial, smoke-filled Pittsburgh and wrote songs set in a pastoral South—unsullied by the grime of industry but tarnished by the injustice of slavery. Rather than defining Foster by his now-controversial minstrel songs, JoAnne O’Connell reveals a prolific composer who concealed his true feelings in his lyrics and wrote in diverse styles to satisfy the changing tastes of his generation. In a trenchant reevaluation of his NewYork Bowery years, O’Connell illustrates how Foster purposely abandoned the style for which he was famous to write lighthearted songs for newly popular variety stages and music halls. In the last years of his life, Foster’s new direction in songwriting stood in the vanguard of vaudeville and musical comedy to pave the way for the future of American popular music. His stylistic flexibility in the face of evolving audience preferences not only proves his versatility as a composer but also reveals important changes in the American music and publishing industries. An intimate biography of a complex, controversial, and now neglected composer, The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster is an important story about the father of American music. This invaluable portrait of the political, economic, social, racial, and gender issues of antebellum and Civil War America will appeal to history and music lovers of all generations.