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The Photography of Henry K. Landis

Pennsylvania and New York, 1886-1955
  • ISBN-13: 9780811705691
  • Publisher: STACKPOLE BOOKS (NBN)
    Imprint: STACKPOLE BOOKS
  • By Oscar Beisert, By Irwin Richman
  • Price: AUD $54.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 30/07/2013
  • Format: Paperback (279.00mm X 216.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Individual photographers [AJB]
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A collection of photographs documenting a diverse array of lifestyles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Pennsylvania and New York by amateur photographer Henry K. Landis (1865-1955)Rich views of turn-of-the-century street life of immigrant communities in New York City, comfortable middle-class lifestyles in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and boating and leisure on Long IslandShots of natural areas in Central Pennsylvania, the agricultural living of the Pennsylvania Dutch in Lancaster, and the beginnings of the photographera s Landis Valley Museum, housing his vast collections of artifacts"
Oscar D. Beisert Jr. lives in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, and is an architectural historian. Irwin Richman, who resides in Bainbridge, Pennsylvania, is Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History at Penn State Harrisburg and is currently Director of the Heirloom Seed.
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