Portraits of America: Central Park: The Museum of the City of New York

Portraits of America: Central Park: The Museum of the City of New York
John S. Berman (Author)

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Designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux, America’s first and largest urban landscaped park features meandering paths and lush vegetation. The amazing story of the park’s creation and evolution is revealed in more than 100 vintage photographs dating back to the mid-1800s, along with fascinating details on such landmarks as Belvedere Castle, the Reservoir and the Ramble.

• Rank: #291524 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Description #1 by eCrater - genealogyimagesofhistory:

Please visit our Store Page for an easier search of all the listings we have to offer. Genealogy Images Of History eCRATER Store (Click above.) In the left hand corner, insert the name or subject you are searching for. Click on text and title description, hit go and our offerings that contain the name or subject you are searching for will appear. Folks, sooner or later - Genealogists are going to realize that their family kinfolks are laying on some dealer's dusty shelves. If I can contribute to finding one little name or photo of that long lost ancestor you have been waiting to find,- its worth all the time I spend. GIANTS OF THE MOUNTAINS THE WESTERN STEAM LOCOMOTIVE Oh Yes, they pulled and puffed and chugged and huffed till the dawning of the appallingly unromantic and efficient diesel locomotive of today. FACTUAL HISTORY OF OUR WESTERN TRAINS OLD TRAIN MEMORABILIA IS RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING Folks, the only thing more romantic than a train is its story as written by one who knows the trains and their history backward and forward. Strange to run onto an old western with as much depth and romance as this one entitled GIANTS OF THE MOUNTAINS THE WESTERN STEAM LOCOMOTIVE and noted author Cy Martin packs makes a concise and exciting of the story of the train " its history of formation " the survey expeditions to determine the routes across Western America and the men who manned them and those that financed their efforts. There were many a western story published " the common ones about Cowboys and Indians are listed on eCRATER every day but the rarer ones about the history of the Western Steam Locomotive in the pioneer west are seldom found. Collectors treasure them and their price guide value rises every day. They are hard to find. I hunt them out because really the better, untold and rarer stories were published in the rest. Heres one of em. FOLLOWING PURCHASE AND PAYMENT, IF YOU WILL WRITE ME OF YOUR SPECIAL NAME OR INTEREST, I WILL DO A FREE SEARCH OF MYUNINDEXED STORIES AND NAMES. GENEALOGYIMAGESOFHISTORYIF I FIND SOMETHING THAT I THINK MERITS YOUR INTEREST, I WILL WRITE A REVIEW AND PLACE IT ON eCRATER AND GIVE YOU NOTICE AND A HEAD START TO BUYITNOW! Following my retirement, I have dedicated my remaining hours to indexing the Genealogy of our western heroes. During my research, I discovered that thousands of our kinfolk lay unfound and unrecognized on some book dealers shelf gathering dust. Because Old Western History and Memorabilia was printed before computer indexing, I index every item I sell. This complete index will be bound and included in this offering at no additional cost. Humbly, I am trying to keep our history alive. I hope you appreciate the effort. GIANTS OF THE MOUNTAINS THE WESTERN STEAM LOCOMOTIVE by Cy Martin ANCESTORS INDEXED HEREIN, CIRCA: 1850 era ANCESTORS LOCATION: Western United States Folks, sooner or later - Genealogists are going to realize that their family kinfolks are laying on some dealer's dusty shelves. If I can contribute to finding one little name or photo of that long lost ancestor you have been waiting to find, its worth all the time I spend. GENEALOGY NAMES INDEXED w * INDICATING PICTURE: ASPINWALL, William " founder of the Panama Railroad BEALE, Edward " head of the St. Louis expedition financed by Thomas Hart Benton " Financier of St. Louis interests to protect the interest of the St. Louis area BECKWITH, EG, Lieutenant " who completed Captain John Gunnison work of the exploration and survey party through Colorado Pass after he slain along with seven of his man by Indians in Central Utah BENTON, Thomas Hart " Financier of St. Louis interests to protect the interest of the St. Louis area BORDHEAD, Richard " Senator from Pennsylvania BURCH, John C. " California Congressman CHORPENNING, George " partnered Salt Lake City to Sacramento Mail Route COOK, Jay " Financier who took over the Northern Pacific Railway CROCKER " (and his Coolies) named in story DAVIS, Jefferson " Secretary of War DODGE, Grenville - General " Dispatched by Iowa financiers to protect the interest of western Nebraska area DOUGLAS, Stephen " Senator of Illinois " author of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854 FREMONT, John " legendary expedition leader and head of the St. Louis expedition financed by Thomas Hart Benton " Financier of St. Louis interests to protect the interest of the St. Louis area GUNNISON, John " Captain of the exploration and survey party through Colorado Pass who was slain along with seven of his man by Indians in Central Utah GWIN, William " Senator from California HEAP, Gwinn " Press agent for Edward Beale " head of the St. Louis expedition financed by Thomas Hart Benton " Financier of St. Louis interests to protect the interest of the St. Louis area JUDAH " Named in story KEARNY " Leader of Kearnys Army LINCOLN, Abraham " President of the United States MARTIN, Cy " Author of this story POPE, John - Captain " leader of survey of expedition party of the Staked Plains of western Texas STANFORD, Leland " Drove Golden Spoke to join the last tow halves of the western frontier STANSBURY " Expedition leader STEVENS, Isaac I. " Governor of Washington Territory and leader of survey expedition from Fort Snelling, Minnesota through Montana to Puget Sound WHIPPLE, Amiel " Lieutenant " leader of survey and expedition party from Fort Smith, Arkansas through Albuquerque to Los Angeles WOODSON, Samuel " first to receive contract for mail run from Independence to Salt Lake City WOODWARD, Absalom " partnered Salt Lake City to Sacramento Mail Route " later killed by Indians RAILWAY LINES NAMED w * INDICATING PICTURE: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Baltimore and Ohio Railway Central Pacific Railway Charleston & Hamburg Railroad Great Northern Railway Denver and Rio Grande Northern Pacific Railway Panama Isthmus Railroad Rio Grande Railway Santa Fe Railroad Southern Pacific Railway Union Pacific (follows Kearnys Gila River Survey) TRANSPORTATION, TRAINS, TYPES and ENGINES NAMED w * INDICATING PICTURE: American Type (4-4-0) Aspinwalls Panama Isthmus Railroad Articulated Coal Burning Engine of the Western Pacific * Aspinwalls Panama Isthmus Railroad Atlantic Type (4-4-2) Berkshire Type (2-8-4) Consolidation Type (2-8-0) Cyrus K. Holiday * Decapod Type (2-10-0) El Gobernador * Farlie (1864) Governor Stanford * Hudson Type (4-6-4) Mallets (1876) Mikado Type (4-4-0) Mogul Type (2-8-2) Mountain Type (4-8-2) New England Clipper Ships Northern Type (4-8-2) One of First Cab-Forward Engines * Pacific Type (4-6-2) Prairie Type (2-6-2) Santa Fe Modern Diesel * Santa Fe Type (2-10-0) The South Carolina Ten Wheeler Type (4-6-0) Texas Type (2-10-4) Uncle Dick (New Mexico & Southern Pacific No. 204) * PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS w * INDICATING PICTURE: Picture 1) " Photo of Central Pacific El Gobernador * (Courtesy of Southern Pacific Railroad) Picture 2) " Photo of one of first Cab-forward Engines * (Courtesy of Cy Martin Collection) Picture 3) " Photo of an early Santa Fe locomotive at entrance to Raton Pass * (Courtesy of National Park Service Collection at fort Union National Museum) Picture 4) " Photo of The Governor Stanford First engine of the Central Pacific Railroad * (Courtesy of Southern Pacific Railroad) Picture 5) " Photo of the Cyrus K. Holiday " Santa Fes first locomotive * (Courtesy of Cy Martin Collection) Picture 6) " Photo of The Uncle Dick named after Dick Woolten of Raton Pass fame (New Mexico & Southern Pacific No. 204) * (Courtesy of Santa Fe Railroad) Picture 7) " Photo of the Articulated Coal Burning Engine of the Western Pacific Railway* (Courtesy of Western Pacific Railway) Picture 8) " Photo of a modern Santa Fe Freight Diesel * (Courtesy of Santa Fe Railroad) Picture 9) " Photo of the Articulated Coal Burning Engine of the Western Pacific Railway* (Courtesy of Western Pacific Railway) Picture 10) " Photo of the Union Pacific No. 4006 called the Big Boy of the Union Pacific Railway* (Courtesy of 36 Slides Collection) Picture 11) " Photo of the Baldwin Locomotive of the Santa Fe Railway * (Courtesy of Santa Fe Railway) Picture 12) " Photo of a modern Union Pacific Freight Diesel * (Courtesy of Union Railroad) NAMES, PLACES MAIL ROUTES AND THINGSS PROMINENTLY MENTIONED w * INDICATING PICTURE: Aspinwalls Panama Isthmus Railroad Baker Valve Gears Bureau of Topographical Engineers Canada Central Valley, California Chicago Cochetopa Pass Colorado Rockies Council Bluff, Iowa Decopods Donner Pass Donner Summit Feather River Fort Laramie Gila River Gila River Survey Independence, Missouri Joys Valve Gears Lake Superior Mallets Minnesota Los Angeles, California Nebraska Nevada New Orleans New England New Mexico New York to California Platte River Puget Sound Raton Mountains Raton Pass Rocky Mountains Royal Gorge Salt Lake, Utah Sherman Hill Sierra Mountains South Pass Southern Valve Gears St. Louis St. Paul Staked Plains of Texas Texas The Horn Trinidad, Colorado Unitas Vicksburg Walschaerts Valve Gears Wasatch Washington Territory Wyoming Young Valve Gears GIANTS OF THE MOUNTAINS THE WESTERN STEAM LOCOMOTIVE by Cy Martin OLD TRAIN MEMORABILIA IS RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING While others clip ads from magazines, I save history. Its a shame that our past is being lost. Its as simple as that. My wife kids me that after I find a piece I like, buy it, read it, research it, take a picture, scan it, write the blurb, pay the eCRATER entry fee and commission, that I end up making about 50 cents an hour. But, OH HOW I LOVE THIS OLD WESTERN HISTORY. What a story, Rare Story!!! Great Pictures. You will love it as it was published in this old complete and seldom found western magazine of many years ago. The issue is in excellent condition, the cover is pristine and in vibrant color. As clearly stated in my description, this is featured

Description #2 by Etsy - vintagephotosjohnson:

St. Michael's Church, Charleston, SC, by William Henry Jackson. (Attrib.) "St. Michael's Church, Charleston, SC" handwritten on verso of board. 9" x 6 3/4", mounted on board. Photochrom Print (Color photo lithograph). Ex-institution. See Store Introduction. Photochrom (also called "Photochrome" or also called the Aac process) prints are colorized images produced from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process was invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid (18561924), an employee of the Swiss company Orell Gessner Fussli. Fussli founded the stock company Photochrom Zurich (later Photoglob Zurich AG) as the business vehicle for the commercial exploitation of the process. From the mid 1890s on the process was licensed by other companies including the Detroit Photographic Company in the US and the Photochrom Company of London. The photochrom process was most popular in the 1890s, when true color photography was first being developed but was still commercially impractical. Thousands of photochrom prints, usually of cities or landscapes, were created and sold as postcards and it is in this format that photochrom reproductions became most popular. World War One brought an end to the craze for collecting Photochrom postcards. In 1897, the Detroit Photographic Company, led by William A. Livingstone, obtained exclusive rights to print and distribute Photochrom prints in the United States. Livingstone hired the well-known photographer William Henry Jackson who brought with him thousands of his own negatives that would form the core of Detroit Photographic's Photochrom catalog. The company continued producing Photochrom prints until the early 1930s, when cheaper production methods used by other photographic companies forced the company out of business. WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON. (1843 - 1942) (USA) William Henry Jackson was born on Apr. 4, 1843 at Keesville, New York. He worked as a photographic retoucher and print colorist for CC Schoonmaker in Troy, New York in 1858, then worked for the Mowrey Studio in Rutland, Vermont in 1861. During the Civil War Jackson joined Company K, 12th Vermont Infantry, and served from 1862 to 1865. In 1866 he travelled west, working as a muleskinner and freight hauler, and in a variety of odd jobs. During this time he sketched and painted in watercolors. In 1866 he set up a photographic studio in Omaha, Nebraska with his brother Edward, but soon left the portraiture activity to others and began travelling and photographing views. In 1869 he photographed along the right of way of the newly completed Union Pacific Railroad with AC Hull. In 1870 he met Ferdinand V. Hayden, who invited Jackson to join his team making the US Geological Survey of the Territories. Jackson closed his Omaha studio and worked as the official photographer for the Survey for the next eight years, travelling into Wyoming and Oregon in 1870, into the Yellowstone area in 1871 and 1872, then to Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in 1873 74. In 1874 75 he photographed in New Mexico, and Utah and back in Wyoming in 1876. This work gained him an international reputation, and his work was published frequently in both the photographic press and general interest magazines. In 1879, after it was clear that the government support for the surveys was finished, Jackson moved to Denver, Colorado and founded the Jackson Photo Co., which is the base from which he made extended photographic journeys throughout the West and the Southwest. Through the 1880s and 1890s he travelled all over the United States and into Mexico, often making what was, in effect, publicity photographs for a number of railroads. For example he photographed along the line of the Central Mexico railroad in 1883 and 1884, the New York Central railroad in 1890, and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1892. In the mid 1890s Jackson's photographs formed the core of several book publishing ventures, all illustrated with the cheap new photogravure methods becoming more common to publishers. For example his photographs appear in Camera Mosaics in 1894, and his views of the Columbian World's Fair Exposition in 1894 were published in the The White City Artfolio and in several other formats. In 1895 Jackson was asked to travel around the world, photographing and writing a series of articles for Harper's Weekly titled "Around the World with the Transportation Commission of the Field Columbian Museum." The articles in this series were published almost every week from February 1895 until August 1897. In 1898 Jackson became a partner in the Detroit Photographic Company and continued to travel and photograph all over the eastern United States. Many of his earlier negatives, some going back to the 1870s, were republished in a newer format, as photoengraved prints, sometimes with added color. Occasionally the image even altered through the pressman's montage efforts. Later Jackson worked as the plant manager and promoter for the company until it failed in 1924. After retirement from the Detroit Photographic Co. Jackson often described his experiences to historical groups and published articles and books based on his experiences and his work. In 1935 the National Park Service hired Jackson, then age 92, to paint four murals to illustrate each of the four federal surveys of the territories west of the Mississippi. His advanced age and strong reputation, continued activity, and personality led him to become something of a minor celebrity in his latter years. This was a period fueled by prewar patriotism which was interested in recapturing American history and defining American values. Towards the end of his life, notices about Jackson's activities appeared in the New York Times and a variety of historical and art journals. Jackson lived to be almost a hundred years old, dying in 1942. His death was publicly noted more widely than any but a few other photographers. One published claim states that Jackson made over 54000 glass plate negatives in his lifetime.

Description #3 by Ruby Lane:

This is a 20 3/4 by 30 inch crayon and ink drawing of a nude sleeping with bent knees. It is dated 1955 and it was done by New York modernist August Mosca.It is in excellent condition. The edges have some smal/slight tears, the longest of which is 3/4 of an inch on the left edge. All of these minor rips would be covered when matted and framed.The photos tell thew story. This drawing will be shipped free and insured via UPS or USPS. August Mosca 1905-2003 August Mosca was born in Naples, Italy on August 19, 1905. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1911. Mosca studied at Yale University from 1924-26. He then attended Pratt Institute, Grand Central School and the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied with Harry Wickey. Though he was a matriculated student at these schools, Mosca never actually completed any degrees. He lived for a couple of years in Dumont ,NJ around 1957 to 1959 before moving to New York City and then permanently to Shelter Island. He also traveled to Italy where he studied the works of some of the great Italian Renaissance masters, including Raphael, Leonardo, Signorelli, and Michaelangelo. In 1937 Mosca met Joseph Stella who introduced him to the silverpoint medium. He was greatly influenced by Stella, who died in 1946. It was Stella who actually encouraged Mosca to paint images of New York City, including the subway & train system as well bridges and New York city. Mosca painted many still lifes,landscapes(often involving Shelter Island) as well as the human figure.He was particularly taken with the female form/nudes having drawn and painted hundreds of these works.His high keyed palette and style were at times highly expressionist and Fauve-like. As well as being a working painter, Mosca taught art at the Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, Art Students League, and in Tuxedo Park. Mosca's first one-man show was held at the Harry Salpeter Gallery in New York in 1959, where he showed annually until 1969. Later the FAR Gallery handled him exclusively for six years; he was given a one-man exhibition every year. Other one-man exhibitions were held at the Guild Hall in East Hampton, in New Haven, Connecticut, and in Newark, New Jersey at the NJ landmark Rabin & Krueger Gallery. In 1990 the prestigious Grand Central Gallery in New York held a 50 year retrospective of Mosca's drawings and paintings. In 1997 the ACA Gallery in New York held a one-man show titled August Mosca Paints New York. He was included in the Living Legends exhibition at the Millennium Gallery in East Hampton. He also exhibited in the Red Barn Atelier and the Elaine Benson Gallery both in Southhampton, as well as the Linda Fishetti Gallery in Southhold. His work was included in the Metropolitan Museum's Portrait of America exhibition, and in the Museum of Modern Art.Among his many awards are a Silver Medal from California Palace of the Legion of Honor. He won First Prize from the Newspaper Guild of New York in 1950 and 1951. He won the Barney Paisner Award from the Society of American Graphic Artists in 1976, the Award of Merit in 1984, the Jane Peterson Award from The Society of Painters and Sculptorsin 1984, he received a lifetime Honorary Membership from the Audubon Artists. Mosca is listed in all of the major dictionaries of American artists. Mosca's works can be found in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Grey Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Library of Congress, US State Department, New York Public Library, Roy Neuberger Museum, and the Shelter Island Historical Society.