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Panoramic Photograph Fresno. 1000 ft Elevation.

1910Best.-Nr. NL-024281910 R.J. Waters panoramic aerial photo of Fresno California. The present photograph is a horizontal panoramic aerial view of downtown Fresno taken at the beginning of the 20th century from an elevation of approximately 1000 feet. The white-printed caption in the lower center of the photograph confirms both the place and elevation and identifies the maker as R. J. Waters Aerial Photograph Co. The photograph depicts Fresno's urban core downtown. From our vantage point we look north across Fresno's railroad hub and into the town proper. A central landmark is the white rotunda or dome of the old Fresno County courthouse. Around it the streets are lined with residential housing and small businesses. Important foreground features include railroads and industry. Fresno was served by multiple railroads including the iconic Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads. The bottom half of the panorama is dominated by extensive trackage and a range of railroad-related buildings including warehouses freight houses train sheds and at least one passenger platform. On the right side of the panorama a large industrial area with warehouses workshops and multiple derricks sits in proximity to the tracks. Towards the middle of the image an underpass or bridge connects the two sides of the many parallel tracks. In unison these elements reflect downtown Fresno's status as a vital rail and freight hub at the time. Beyond the rail yards we note the city's commercial core which appears as a dense cluster of low brick and masonry commercial blocks surrounding a tree-lined civic square situated slightly to the right of center. The orthogonal grid of streets is buzzing with vehicular traffic. At the north end of civic square is the splendid dome and colonnaded façade of the old Fresno County Courthouse which was built in 1875 and hailed as "the grandest and noblest edifice that has ever been planned and contemplated in this valley". After surveys revealed structural weaknesses in the building and a new courthouse had been constructed this California landmark was demolished in 1966. Today the spot is occupied by the aptly named Courthouse Park. Taking note of the infrastructure a major street extends between the courthouse and the railyards. This not only prompted new arrivals to approach the city center via this axis but also created the perspective of a town centered on the rule of law. A cityscape reconfigured During the 20th century transportation and industrial patterns in downtown Fresno underwent significant changes. Over time everything from passenger services and yard configurations to freight and production facilities moved away from the city center. The large freight depots were either moved or repurposed and new urban needs led to rail-adjacent streets altering their character in fundamental ways. This photograph captures a time when the rail yards still physically dominated the downtown zones of many California cities and towns. Yet even though the urban fabric of Fresno has changed dramatically since this image was copyrighted in 1910 a number of visible historic structures still stand. A significant remnant of Fresno's days as a railway hub is the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot at Tulare and H Streets in downtown Fresno. This was completed in 1889 and was an unusual departure from the traditional Southern Pacific architectural style. About a block to the left west of the old Courthouse the panorama includes another iconic Fresno landmark one that still survives to this day. The Old Fresno Water Tower was designed by George Washington Maher and was completed in late 1894. It ceased operation in 1963 but was maintained and has served as a visitors' center since 2001. While time and modernization may have altered Fresno's urban landscape it remains a city defined by stunning natural beauty. Set in the lovely San Joaquin Valley Fresno is set against the spectacular profile of the Sierra Nevadas which run across the entirety of this panorama forming a distant and dramatic horizon. Census The Library of Congress holds this panorama both as an original gelatin silver print and as a digital reproduction LoC Call Number: PAN US GEOG – California no. 48; OCLC no. 451307781. It is listed as a copyright deposit dated July 5 1910. Urban aerial photography in early 20th-century America Aerial and panoramic views of towns and cities became popular documentary and commercial subjects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as photographic technology and airborne platforms matured and merged. Early panoramic aerials were sometimes taken from tethered balloons or kites but by the early 1900s photographers and specialist companies such as R. J. Waters were producing high-resolution panoramic prints that stitched a wide field of view into a single long panorama suitable for display. The Library of Congress and other collections hold many such panoramas because they capture a combination of urban form transportation infrastructure and civic landmarks at a moment when American cities were undergoing rapid change. Beyond novelty early aerial panoramas were also practical: they recorded rail and industrial layouts useful for planners and businesses showed street grids and property patterns for municipal records and captured iconic civic views e.g. of courthouses parks capitols etc. which cities used to promote themselves. The technical limitations film size lens coverage and platform stability encouraged the panoramic format. Multiple exposures or rotating-camera techniques were combined into long prints that emphasize the horizontal sweep of a city—precisely what we see in this Fresno image. Cartographers: Raper James R. J. Waters 1856–1937 was a commercial photographer active in California and Nevada whose studio produced a wide range of documentary and panoramic photographs around the turn of the 20th century. Waters opened a commercial studio in San Francisco in the 1890s and became especially known for panoramic city views and commercial photographic services. His photographs are held in significant collections including those of the Library of Congress the Getty and the Metropolitan Museum among others. Aerial photos of urban landscapes were among the most common genres of images that R. J. Waters's studio produced in the late 1910s. These include multiple aerial and panoramic images of cities like San Francisco Oakland Fresno and Sacramento. These prints were often made in large sizes for display and municipal record-keeping and now form a valuable visual record of how California cities looked before the ubiquitous transformations of the mid-20th century. R.J. Waters Company

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Women's Education Caroline D. WatersABAA

Mathematics notebook of a 16 year old girl being educated in the 19th century

1850Best.-Nr. 3448Great Britain 1850. Comprised of 88 manuscript pages of mathematical definitions tables methods and exercises in a single hand with the ownership signature of "Caroline Waters Age 16 yrs" to the front endpaper. Marbled paper vernacular binding measuring 8 x 12 inches and stitched at spine. Caroline's metric measurements and English currency reveal her to be a student somewhere in the UK. Though the commonness of her name and the absence of a specific date prevents us from locating her in genealogy records the manuscript she left behind reveals much about how and why girls of her age and class were being taught arithmetic. Caroline's elegant practiced hand suggests that she is a member of the rising middle class and the opening of the book suggests that she is a beginning to intermediate mathematician. At the top of the first page she defines Arithmetic as "the art of computing by numbers" which "has five principal sic rules for this purpose viz. Numeration Subtraction Addition Multiplication and Division." Using this definition she divides her notebook into a section for each providing a definition for that principle plus clear-cut examples of its use in both Simple and Compound formats. Numeration Subtraction and Addition are grouped together at the front; and after these sections conclude Caroline enters in Practical Questions in Compound Addition and Subtraction. These involve word problems involving the exchange of money and the calculation of wet and dry weights cloth measurements and time. She then mirrors this with Multiplication and Division before adding sections on Decimal Fractions more Practical Questions and sections on Federal Money and Simple Interest. The organization of the manuscript suggests that Caroline copied it out for continued reference where sections are easy to locate and problems clearly illustrate each of the principles. And the emphasis in sample problems on currency conversion monetary exchange and banking implies that her family in some way wanted her to be aware of these concepts. An exceptional and rich document Caroline's notebook is a rich resource for study including but not limited to the history of women's education middle class education women's domestic use of mathematics women in business paleography genealogy gender studies. unknown books

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Egan, James; John WatersBiblio.com

John Waters : Interviews

2011Best.-Nr. 94830University Press of Mississippi. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 280 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; Conversations With Filmmakers; The films of John Waters b. 1946 are some of the most powerful send-ups of conventional film forms and expectations since Luis Bu-uel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou. In attempting to reinvigorate the experience of movie-going with his shock comedy Waters has been willing to take the chance of offending nearly everyone. His characters have great dignity and resourcefulness taking what's different or unacceptable or grotesque about themselves heightening it and turning it into a handmade personal style. The interviews collected here span Waters's career from 1965 to 2010 and include a new one exclusive to this edition. Waters began making films in his hometown of Baltimore in 1964. Demonstrating an innate talent at capturing the hideous and crude and elevating it to art he reached international acclaim with his outrageous shock comedy Pink Flamingos. This landmark film redefined cinema and became a cult classic. Appearing in this and many of Waters's early films his star Divine would consistently challenge gender definitions. With Polyester Waters entered the mainstream. The film starred Divine as an unhappy housewife who romances a former teen idol played by Tab Hunter. Waters's commercial breakthrough Hairspray told the story of Baltimore's televised sock-hop program The Corny Collins Show and how one brave girl Ricki Lake used her platform as a dancer to end segregation in her town. From Serial Mom and Pecker to Cecil B. Demented Waters continued to infiltrate the mainstream with his unique approach to filmmaking. As a visual artist he was given a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2004 which was shown at galleries around the world. . 2011. 161703181X . University Press of Mississippi paperback

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Egan, James; John WatersBiblio.com

John Waters : Interviews

2011Best.-Nr. 94829University Press of Mississippi. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 280 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; Conversations With Filmmakers; The films of John Waters b. 1946 are some of the most powerful send-ups of conventional film forms and expectations since Luis Bu-uel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou. In attempting to reinvigorate the experience of movie-going with his shock comedy Waters has been willing to take the chance of offending nearly everyone. His characters have great dignity and resourcefulness taking what's different or unacceptable or grotesque about themselves heightening it and turning it into a handmade personal style. The interviews collected here span Waters's career from 1965 to 2010 and include a new one exclusive to this edition. Waters began making films in his hometown of Baltimore in 1964. Demonstrating an innate talent at capturing the hideous and crude and elevating it to art he reached international acclaim with his outrageous shock comedy Pink Flamingos. This landmark film redefined cinema and became a cult classic. Appearing in this and many of Waters's early films his star Divine would consistently challenge gender definitions. With Polyester Waters entered the mainstream. The film starred Divine as an unhappy housewife who romances a former teen idol played by Tab Hunter. Waters's commercial breakthrough Hairspray told the story of Baltimore's televised sock-hop program The Corny Collins Show and how one brave girl Ricki Lake used her platform as a dancer to end segregation in her town. From Serial Mom and Pecker to Cecil B. Demented Waters continued to infiltrate the mainstream with his unique approach to filmmaking. As a visual artist he was given a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2004 which was shown at galleries around the world. . 2011. 1617031801 . University Press of Mississippi hardcover

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Waters, Deborah Dependahl & Kimberley Ahara & Bruce Barnes & JosephCunninghamBiblio.com

The Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann

2012Best.-Nr. 93811Yale University Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 400 pages. 517 color 28 b/w illus. Publisher description: A true eclectic in her personal life her professional pursuits and her creative expression Marie Zimmermann has proven an elusive character for historians. But her skill as a designer and prodigious output of extraordinary jewelry and metalwork in the early 20th century have routinely caught people by surprise. At its best Zimmermann's work is beguiling and exhilarating exploring a wide range of innovative approaches to pattern material and surface. The diversity of her oeuvre including work in gold silver bronze copper and iron is as astonishing as the boldness of the life she led. This book gathers for the first time the story of Zimmermann's life and work and puts a spotlight on one of the most singular makers of metalwork active in early-20th-century America. Essays by leading scholars in the decorative arts offer extensive new research on Zimmermann and her work while more than 500 gorgeous full-color images show the breadth and novelty of her design practice. -- with a bonus offer--; A true eclectic in her personal life her professional pursuits and her creative expression Marie Zimmermann has proven an elusive character for historians. But her skill as a designer and prodigious output of extraordinary jewelry and metalwork in the early 20th century have routinely caught people by surprise. At its best Zimmermann's work is beguiling and exhilarating exploring a wide range of innovative approaches to pattern material and surface. The diversity of her oeuvre including work in gold silver bronze copper and iron is as astonishing as the boldness of the life she led. This book gathers for the first time the story of Zimmermann's life and work and puts a spotlight on one of the most singular makers of metalwork active in early-20th-century America. Essays by leading scholars in the decorative arts offer extensive new research on Zimmermann and her work while more than 500 gorgeous full-color images show the breadth and novelty of her design practice. . 2012. 0300181140 . Yale University Press hardcover

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[Women's Education] Caroline D WatersBiblio.com

Mathematics notebook of a 16 year old girl being educated in the 19th century

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Waters" [William Russell]Biblio.com

RECOLLECTIONS OF A DETECTIVE POLICE-OFFICER

1856Best.-Nr. 53813London: J. & C. Brown & Co 1856. First edition. Very good. First authorized edition in book form of these collected police detective stories the first ever of their kind to feature an investigator from Scotland Yard. Originally published in CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL the thirteen stories of the First Series plus an eight additional episodes gathered three years later in the Second Series mark the first appearance in fiction of a Scotland Yard detective. Russell in the persona of "Waters" presented his narratives as first-person recollections in line with the conventions of the mid-Victorian police memoir then enjoying great popularity while offering to the reading public a new kind of hero: a policeman with intelligence curiosity and integrity. Detective fiction has always pressed up against the porous borders of that much-derided segment of popular literature now known as "true crime": just as the latter is frequently embellished and distorted for the sake of a better story crime and detective fiction in its earliest forms borrowed the shock of the real insisting as a matter of genre convention that the events depicted were only lightly fictionalized that the reader was given entrée into the "marginalized social space between 'respectable' and 'criminal'" Saunders occupied by the real-life police detective; that they were being told a true story by an insider. Verisimilitude was the point: "The genre was designed to take the private spaces operations and methodologies of the police force and publicize them for the reader and Russell himself explained that his memoir writing was designed to present an inside view into policing for readers" Saunders. Given the bedrock importance of this interplay between the real and the unreal at the dawn of detective fiction it is perhaps unsurprising that Sherlock Holmes the most famous fictional private detective of later Victorian decades would inspire a legion of devotees to insist on his factual reality perfectly well aware that this was not true and sublimely indifferent to it. A handsome copy of this scarce and vital Queen's Quorum and Haycraft-Queen title - especially uncommon complete in one volume. Two octavo volumes bound in one 6.25'' x 4''. Contemporary half calf marbled boards. Gilt-ruled spine with spine label. Lacking frontispiece as sometimes seen. 8 310 pages. In custom cloth slipcase. Sympathetically rebacked with reinforcement to hinges. Some rubbing chipping rear joint. Overall clean and sound. J. & C. Brown & Co unknown

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Waters" [William Russell]Biblio.com

THE EXPERIENCES OF A FRENCH DETECTIVE OFFICER

1861Best.-Nr. 54625London: Charles H. Clarke 1861. Very good plus. First edition of this classic Victorian detective novel ostensibly written in the form of a memoir by an expat detective who fled his home country to avoid political persecution. After his RECOLLECTIONS OF A DETECTIVE POLICE-OFFICER 1856 the first novel of its kind to feature an investigator from Scotland Yard Russell followed-up with this first-person series of eight short stories featuring Detective Duhamel "who escaped his native France to avoid imprisonment for political reasons" Dever 234. Detective fiction has always pressed up against the porous borders of that much-derided segment of popular literature now known as "true crime": just as the latter is frequently embellished and distorted for the sake of a better story crime and detective fiction in its earliest forms borrowed the shock of the real insisting as a matter of genre convention that the events depicted were only lightly fictionalized that the reader was given entrée into the "marginalized social space between 'respectable' and 'criminal'" Saunders occupied by the real-life police detective; that they were being told a true story by an insider. Verisimilitude was the point: "The genre was designed to take the private spaces operations and methodologies of the police force and publicize them for the reader and Russell himself explained that his memoir writing was designed to present an inside view into policing for readers" Saunders. To this end Russell / Duhamel begin the book with an "essay" "The Difference Between English and French Detectives" writing: "It is true they are alike agents of the public force and that their common mission is to frustrate or detect offenses against the person and against property. But there the resemblance ends . Yes multifarious all-embracing are the duties of the French Secret Police." Rare; OCLC locates just eight copies. 6.25'' x 4''. Original full purple textured cloth with gilt spine titles. 2 13-317 1 publisher's ad pages complete. Spine sunned with faint perished label shadow. Minor shelfwear. Overall clean and sound. Charles H. Clarke unknown

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