Subjects & Themes - Historical
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The Color of Clothes: Fashion and Dress in Autochromes 1907-1930
$95.00 Add to cart“Soon the world will be color-mad and Lumi?re will be responsible.” — Alfred Stieglitz, 1907
These words announced the arrival of the autochrome, the color process invented by the Lumi?re brothers tha
- Author: Blackman, Cally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0500025487
- Language: English
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The Tlingit in Sitka: The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill
$50.00 Add to cartA rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans between the late 1800s and 1920s
Lured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a
- Author: Kan, Sergei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0295753471
- Language: English
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The Flying Machine: The Story of a Rock N’ Roll Club in Akron, Ohio
$30.95 Add to cartThe Flying Machine is the original story of the premier rock and roll club located near Akron, Ohio, the birthplace of rock music. The book chronicles the history and story of one venue and highlights
- Author: Mucklow, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896010364
- Language: English
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The Flying Machine: The Story of a Rock N’ Roll Club in Akron, Ohio
$40.95 Add to cartThe Flying Machine is the original story of the premier rock and roll club located near Akron, Ohio, the birthplace of rock music. The book chronicles the history and story of one venue and highlights
- Author: Mucklow, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896010388
- Language: English
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Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen
$39.95 Add to cartExplore Gilded Age New York through the lens of Alice Austen, who captured the social rituals of New York’s leisured class and the bustling streets of the modern city. Celebrated as a queer artist, sh
- Author: Yochelson, Bonnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509509
- Language: English
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We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement
$39.95 Read moreThe American Indian Movement, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, burst into that turbulent time with passion, anger, and radical acts of resistance. Spurred by the Civil Rights movement, Native people be… [more below]
- Author: Bancroft, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 15 2013
- ISBN10: 087351887X
- Language: English
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An Alternative History of Photography
$55.00 Read moreAs inclusive, dynamic and exciting as the medium itself, this utterly original look at the history of photography integrates the landmark discoveries of recent decades to chart new pathways that encom… [more below]
- Author: Prodger, Phillip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 3791387820
- Language: English
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Forgotten Industry and Institutions of Maine: Tales of Milkmen, Axe Murderers, and Ghosts
$24.99 Read moreMaine has its share of industry, some current and some obsolete. Over the last century, many industrial practices have grown and flourished while others have vanished entirely. Likewise, state institu
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Thibodeau, Arend T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1634994736
- Language: English
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Len & Cub: A Queer History
$24.95 Read moreLeonard “Len” Keith and Joseph “Cub” Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly developed an inseparable relatio
- Author: Batt, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1773102648
- Language: English
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Diableries: The Complete Edition: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell
$75.00 Read moreRevised to include every card in the rare series, this 3-D cult classic provides a unique satirical look at an 1860s view of Hell — the French state under the tyrannical rule of Napoleon III.
Thanks- Author: May, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1999667433
- Language: English
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Photography in Japan 1853-1912: Second Edition
$39.99 Add to cartThe must-have classic work on early Japanese photography!
“Writer Bennett crafted this beautiful and educational book from a collection of 350 old and rare images captured by Western photographers. Th- Author: Bennett, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317043
- Language: English
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Abandoned Vermont and New Hampshire: Forgotten in the Mountains
$24.99 Read moreAbandoned Vermont and New Hampshire: Forgotten in the Mountains brings readers on a trip through the winding roads of mountainous areas where understated abandonment is crumbling in the small, rural a… [more below]
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Desrosiers, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1634994558
- Language: English
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New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943
$25.00 Add to cart“Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way.” — Jack Delano
Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Se
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Walther, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 23 2016
- ISBN10: 3836537117
- Language: English
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Eyewitness at Wounded Knee
$34.95 Add to cartOn a wintry day in December 1890, near a creek named Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opened fire on an encampment of Sioux Indians. Thi
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Jensen, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803236093
- Language: English
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A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America
$38.95 Add to cartA Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication
Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world’s largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washi- Author: Feiler, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 082035841X
- Language: English
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Sacred Nile
$50.00 Add to cartSacred Nile is the story of our collective spiritual imagination and practice. Chester Higgins celebrates the agency of people of African descent and their influence on the foundation of Western relig… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Chester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0578851180
- Language: English
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Dark City. the Real Los Angeles Noir
$60.00 Add to cartIn the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater town to a gleaming metropolis and city of the future. But along the way a
- Author: Heimann, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 3836560763
- Language: English
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The Only Woman
$29.95 Read moreAs seen in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Telegraph
A compelling gallery of women who made their way into a man’s world, shown through group portraits each featuring a lone woman
An original
- Author: Humes, Immy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 1838664203
- Language: English
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History as They Saw It: Iconic Moments from the Past in Color
$42.50 Add to cartStep into a time machine and witness some of the most significant events of the late 19th and early 20th century, brought to vivid life in full-color restorations of historic black-and-white photograp… [more below]
- Author: Wild, Wolfgang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1452169500
- Language: English
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Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments
$45.00 Add to cartJuly 16, 1969. Nearly one million spectators flock to Cape Canaveral to witness the largest rocket ever built send three Americans to the Moon. Four days later, two step onto the lunar surface. The ex… [more below]
- Author: Pickering, J. L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0813056179
- Language: English
