A Great Variety of New and Fine Designs: Advertisements for Painted Backgrounds, 1856--1903

The United States ◽

Comprehensive Index ◽

Time Period ◽

The painted background, as a piece of photographic equipment, has rarely bee studied apart form its decorative function in portraits. This thesis addresses the history, construction, and use of the painted background within studio portrait photography during the latter half of the nineteenth century as revealed from examining advertisements for painted backgrounds. 1,096 advertisements for painted backgrounds were reviewed in nine periodicals published in the United States of America from 1856 to 1903, all taken from the Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House. This material has been compiled into a comprehensive index revealing an increase in the use of painted background within portrait photography during this time period. The analysis of this research also provides information about the history of painted backgrounds, companies advertising backgrounds, sizes, styles, and costs of backgrounds, and ways companies shipped their backgrounds throughout this era.

History of the United States of America (1801–1817)

10.1017/cbo9781139059633 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Henry Adams

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Thinking About Scots Law

Edinburgh Law Review ◽

10.3366/elr.1996.1.1.3 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 3-24 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alan Rodger

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

British Empire ◽

Case Law ◽

The United States ◽

Memorial Lecture ◽

University Of Edinburgh ◽

The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

An Overview of the History of Religious Life in the United States

10.1093/oso/9780190878153.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Patricia Wittberg ◽

Thomas P. Gaunt

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Religious Life ◽

The United States ◽

Religious Order ◽

Religious Institutes ◽

History Of ◽

Socioeconomic Composition

This chapter briefly describes the history of religious institutes in the United States. It first covers the demographics—the overall numbers and the ethnic and socioeconomic composition—of the various institutes during the nineteenth century. It next discusses the types of ministries the sisters, brothers, and religious order priests engaged in, and the sources of vocations to their institutes. The second section covers changes in religious institutes after 1950, covering the factors which contributed to the changes as well as their impact on the institutes themselves and the larger Church. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of the subsequent chapters.

allan r. millettand and peter maslowski.For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America. New York: Free Press of Macmillan. 1984. Pp. xiv, 621

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/93.2.489-a ◽

1988 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Military History ◽

The United States ◽

Free Press ◽

History Of ◽

The Common

Perfil biográfico de Juan Byron Markholz.

Revista Medica Herediana ◽

10.20453/rmh.v6i1.472 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Alfonso MONTAGNE V

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

History Of Medicine ◽

The United States ◽

Medical Society ◽

History Of ◽

The Right

The life of Dr. Juan Byron fills of pride the history of medicine of our nation. Peruvian by birth, he lived in Lima during the second half of the IXI century. Survivor of the war against Chile where his knowledge saved many lives, he was the founder of the medical society “Union Fernandina” and of its journal “Crónica Médica”. Journalist, author of dramas, meteorologist, poliglot, bacteriologist and epidemiologist, researcher and teacher of great prestige in the United States of America and a martyr of medicine. None the less this has not been enough spread. Being close to the centennial of his dead (8th May 1,995), I believe it is the right time to make known the most important aspects of his life.

The socio-political context of the application of fair selection models in the usa

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology ◽

10.4102/sajip.v22i1.597 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

Author(s):

G. K. Huysamen

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

South African ◽

Personnel Selection ◽

The United States ◽

Political Context ◽

Preferential Treatment ◽

Selection Models ◽

The Usa ◽

In an earlier article, the psychometrics of various fair selection models that had been proposed in the United States of America in the late 1960s, early 1970s were presented. The purpose of the present article is to discuss the subsequent history of the application of these models in personnel selection in that country and to view its implications for the South African situation. Because the question of fair selection models ties in with the issue of affirmative action, a brief history of this issue as it pertains to personnel selection is also given. Key decisions of the American Supreme Court that have a bearing on this matter are also reviewed. The failure to widely apply these fair selection models may be attributed to the prevalent socio-political context which favours the preferential treatment of certain groups but is hesitant to specify the particulars and limits of such treatment. Opsomming 'n Vorige artikel het die psigometi-ika onderliggend aan verskeie billike keuringsmodelle wat in die laat sestigerjare, vroee sewentigerjare in die Verenigde State van Amerika voorgestel is, behandel. Die doel met die onderhawige artikel is om 'n oorsig te verskaf van die daaropvolgende geskiedenis van die toepassing van daardie modelle in personeelkeuring in daardie land, en om die implikasies daarvan vir die Suid-Afrikaanse situasie te belig. Omdat die aangeleentheid van billike keuringsmodelle verband hou met die kwessie van regstellende aksie, word 'n bondige geskiedenis van hierdie kwessie soos dit op personeelkeuring van toepassing is, ook verskaf. Sleutel-uitsprake van die Amerikaanse Hooggeregshof wat betrekking het op hierdie aangeleentheid word ook beskou. Die beperkte toepassing van hierdie billike keuringsmodelle kan toegeskryf word aan die heersende sosio-politieke konteks wat die voorkeurbehandeling van bepaalde groepe voorstaan, maar wat huiwerig is om die besonderhede en perke van sodanige behandeling te spesifiseer.

History of Research in Developmental Psychology

The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 1 ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199958450.013.0002 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 12-34

Author(s):

W. Andrew Collins ◽

Willard W. Hartup

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Public Policy ◽

Experimental Psychology ◽

Developmental Psychology ◽

The United States ◽

Psychological Development ◽

First Century ◽

History Of Research ◽

This chapter summarizes the emergence and prominent features of a science of psychological development. Pioneering researchers established laboratories in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century to examine the significance of successive changes in the organism with the passage of time. American psychologists, many of whom had studied in the European laboratories, subsequently inaugurated similar efforts in the United States. Scientific theories and methods in the fledgling field were fostered by developments in experimental psychology, but also in physiology, embryology, ethology, and sociology. Moreover, organized efforts to provide information about development to parents, educators, and public policy specialists further propagated support for developmental science. The evolution of the field in its first century has provided a substantial platform for future developmental research.

A Model Republic? The United States in the Italian Revolutions of 1848

America in Italy ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691164854.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Axel Körner

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Political Institutions ◽

Political Thought ◽

The United States ◽

American Democracy ◽

Italian Experience ◽

National Movement ◽

History Of ◽

The Revolution

This chapter examines how protagonists of the Italian revolutions of 1848, including Giuseppe Montanelli and Carlo Cattaneo, engaged with American political institutions by looking at the cases of Lombardy, Tuscany, and Sicily. Before discussing the role played by the United States of America in Italian political thought of 1848, the chapter considers Italian experience of the revolutions of 1820–1821 and 1830–1831, both of which marked a watershed for the peninsula's national movement. It shows that Italian revolutionaries addressed the United States with very different emphasis, illustrating how references to the United States could serve very different ideological purposes. With respect to Tuscany's long history of engagement with the United States, there were far fewer references to American political institutions than for instance in Sicily, where the revolutionaries adopted a monarchical constitution. The chapter also analyzes Cattaneo's involvement in the Revolution in Lombardy and his understanding of American democracy.

Introduction

Intimations of Modernity ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631301.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Louis A. Pérez

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

The United States ◽

National Liberation ◽

Historical Knowledge ◽

Historical Literature ◽

The character of the history of Cuba was fixed early in the nineteenth century, at the about moment that Cubans imagined the need for a proper history of their own. From that time forward, historical knowledge of Cuba has hewed to a well-defined narrative arc, one shaped discursively around the formation of nation, something of a chronicle of national liberation given principally to the celebration of collective resolve and commemoration of individual valor. Much of the historical literature has been given to the heroic, an account of a people to whom is ascribed indomitable will confronting adversaries possessed of unyielding determination, from which are derived two principal narrative subsets of struggle: against colonialism (Spain) and against imperialism (the United States)....