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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PRO

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLO

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1997

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 MUS

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 232.9 LIF

National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1996

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 FOR

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.)

Summary: Presents artworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art arranged by such themes as animals, family, music, dance, play, and country.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books For Young Readers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.747 I

Bernasek, Lisa

Contents: The Imazighen and their arts -- Touring Kabylia -- Harvard in the Rif -- Collecting Tuareg art -- Amazigh art today -- Color plates.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 730.089 BER

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Contents: Foreword / Joan Rosenbaum -- The Jewish museum and its history / Joan Rosenbaum -- Museum without walls / Maurice Berger -- The collection of the Jewish Museum -- Memory and history -- Spirituality and faith -- Society and politics -- Portraiture and identity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jewish Museum 2004

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 704.0392 BER

Gates, Henry Louis

Summary: "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GAT

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GAT

Detroit Institute of Arts

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press 0000

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 Ame

Clifford, Karen.

Contents: Principles of success for the family historian -- Organizing family information -- Becoming acquainted with your genealogy program -- Why document? -- Printing your records -- Your family history notebook -- Developing a sense of our ancestors' environment -- Resolving conflict -- State vital records offices, public libraries, courthouses and local repositories -- Resources of the Family...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 CLI
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 CLI

Muskegon Museum of Art

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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Clifford, Tim

Contents: World currencies -- The United States dollar -- The euro -- Other European money -- Canadian money -- Mexican money -- Japanese money -- Money in Asia -- Money in South America -- Money in Africa -- Money in Australia -- Currency exchanges.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Pub. LLC 2009

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Brown, Clifford.

Contents: Bellarosa -- Carvin' the rock -- Cookin' -- Brownie speaks -- De-dah -- You got to my head [i.e. You go to my head] -- Carvin' the rock (alternate take #1) -- Cookin' (alternate take) -- Carvin' the rock (alternate take #2) -- Wail bait -- Hymn of the Orient -- Brownie eyes -- Cherokee -- Easy living -- Minor mood -- Wail bait (alternate take) -- Cherokee (alternate take) -- Hymn of the Orient...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BRO

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press, In association with the Founders Society, Detroit Institute of Arts 1991

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 AME

Summary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023

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Giroux, Henry A.

Contents: Introduction : Disney's troubled utopia -- Disney and the politics of public culture -- Learning with Disney : from Baby Einstein to High school musical -- Children's culture and Disney's animated films -- Disney, militarization, and the national-security state after 9/11 -- Globalizing the Disney empire -- Conclusion : turning the world into a Disney store.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384.8 GIR

Summary: Backed by a Church struggling to connect with the faithful, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted images imbued with physical immediacy and in-your-face drama. As this program shows, there was a trade-off: Caravaggio's biblical scenes frequently eschew, in the words of presenter Simon Schama, "any vision of consolation or redemption." Exploring the artist's humble origins, penchant for...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Conner, Clifford D.

Summary: Challenges popular beliefs that credit such figures as Galileo, Newton, and Einstein with bringing about modern science, explaining how everyday laborers participated in creating science and continue to do so today, in an account that also documents how the development of science affects ordinary people.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nation books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 CON

Brown, Clifford.

Contents: Waltz hot / S. Rollins (7:43) -- I feel a song comin' on / McHugh, Fields (5:17) -- What's new / B. Haggart (3:16) -- Daahoud (5:22) -- Sweet Clifford (5:37) -- I get a kick out of you / C. Porter (7:45) -- The blues walk (11:35).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fresh Sound Records 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BRO

Thoreau, Henry David

Summary: Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 THO

Birkerts, Sven.

Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93592 BIR

Adams, Henry

Contents: Contains the last two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of James Madison, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of James Madison.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 ADA

Henry, O.

Summary: A collection of Western American short stories by O. Henry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

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