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Author United States. National Archives and Records Service.

Title The American image : photographs from the National Archives, 1860-1960 / Exhibitions staff, Office of Educational Programs, National Archives and Records Service. General Services Administration ; with an introduction by Alan Trachtenberg
Edition First edition
Published New York : Pantheon Books, [1979]
©1979
©1979

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 W'PONDS  973.0222 Nat  AVAILABLE
 MELB  779.973 UNI  AVAILABLE
Description xxxii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Contents Introduction: Photographs as symbolic history / by Alan Trachtenberg -- Prelude -- Civil War (the Brady Collection) -- The growing nation -- 19th century portraits -- The turn of the century -- World War I -- Between the wars -- Coal Mines Administration survey -- World War II -- After World War II
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject National Archives (U.S.) -- Photograph collections -- Catalogs.
United States. National Archives and Records Service -- Catalogs.
United States. National Archives and Records Service -- Photograph collections -- Catalogs.
United States. National Archives and Records Service.
National Archives (U.S.). National Archives -- Photograph collections -- Catalogs.
Documentary photography -- Exhibitions.
Documentary photography.
Photography -- United States.
SUBJECT United States -- Pictorial works http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140007 -- Catalogs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001246
United States -- Aerial views http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005498 -- Catalogs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001246
United States -- Pictorial works http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140007 -- Catalogs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001246
United States -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139993
United States -- History -- 1865- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140285 -- Pictorial works http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272 -- Catalogs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001246
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Author Trachtenberg, Alan.
National archives and record service
LC no. 79001878
ISBN 0394507983
0394738152
9780394507989
9780394738154