Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States

by Vincent Virga

Hardcover, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

973.022

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Publication

Knopf (1997), Edition: 1, 399 pages

Description

Uses photographs, maps, illustrations, posters, manuscripts, letters, and other treasures in the Special Collections of the Library of Congress to document the history of the United States from 1492 through the late twentieth century, and includes seven essays of historical commentary.

User reviews

LibraryThing member rbyrlan

If you like this book, check out the Library of Congress' American Memory website. It is an amazing archive of American history and culture and includes photographs, documents, motion pictures, sheet music, sound recordings, etc. There are over 100 collections in their database and more are being

added. Some of the images in this book are in the collections.

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LibraryThing member bexaplex

While reading this book, I found myself doing what I do at art museums: reading the captions scrupulously and glancing at the pictures. The images are a well-chosen assortment of maps, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, posters, movie stills, etc, but I was more interested in the tiny biographies

of artists, factoids about famous artifacts (e.g. the flag-raising at Iwo Jima photograph was not staged), and other little bites in the captions.

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