Photo Essays category: 258 books
A Toronto Album 2
More Glimpses of the City That Was
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Winner of the 2013 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit
A Toronto Album 2, companion edition to Mike Filey’s immensely popular original album, is a photographic journey through bustling Toronto from the late 1930s to the early 1970s. Among the 100-plus photographs is a quartet that shows the remarkable...
The South in Color
A Visual Journal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixties and seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he became a pathbreaking...
What's in a Picture?
Broiler Queens, Floating House and Other Hidden Stories in Vintage Maine Photography
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
With intriguing photos and lively writing, What's in a Picture makes it clear that historic photographs can be a super source of present-day insight and entertainment. As a magazine feature in Down East and now here as a collection of 50 photographs and extended captions, What's in a Picture proves...
by DaNita Naimoli, Diane Neal
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Jack and Eldora Vetter began Vetter Health Services (VHS) in 1975 with the belief that elderly people deserve dignity in life. Forty years later, what began as the couple's personal mission has grown to include more than 30 award-winning senior-care facilities home to 2,200 residents and patients...
by J. Gregory Pirmann, Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
For nearly 80 years, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was a reminder of how society viewed and treated people with intellectual disabilities. Over its existence, Pennhurst was home to more than 10,600 people. Many spent decades there, working to keep the institution running by performing various...
by Mark Benton
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Pittsburgh natives have recognized Dixmont State Hospital by its towering boiler house smokestack that stood prominently along busy Route 65. It has been a topic of curiosity, urban exploration, ghost hunts, and historical research; but prior to its closing in 1984, Dixmont State Hospital stood as a...
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The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by Beowulf Sheehan, whose work captures the essence of 200 of our most prominent writers, historians, journalists, playwrights, and poets.
Beowulf Sheehan is considered to be his generation's foremost literary portrait photographer, having made...
Liberty and Conscience
A Documentary History of the Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in America through the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their politics, pacifist beliefs, and compulsory military service. While conscientious objection in the twentieth century has been well...
At High and Low Tides
Sand, Animals, Humans, Ocean and beaches ay Alagoas-Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
Photographs during the high and low tides
by Thomas L. Higgins MD, Sandra W. Campbell, Gina O. Campbell RN
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In 1895, Franklin County Public Hospital (FCPH) was founded by 36 citizens led by Dr. Adams Calhoun Deane. The newly incorporated hospital rented the former home of Rev. Dr. Francis Robbins and served 55 patients in its first year of operation. By 1898, FCPH moved to the larger Converse House and...
Guthrie
100 Years of Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
When Dr. Donald Guthrie arrived in Sayre in 1910, it was home to the third-largest railroad repair shop in the world. A small hospital, the first in the region, had opened 25 years earlier to care for those injured in this dangerous work. Fresh from surgical training at the Mayo Clinic, Guthrie brought...
by James M. Ricci
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Newport is a premier destination, but getting to the city has not always been easy. For three centuries, ferries crossed Narragansett Bay's East Passage. That all changed on June 28, 1969, the day the Newport Bridge opened, and it closed the last remaining gap between Aquidneck and Conanicut Islands....
Generations in Black and White
Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten, a longtime patron of black writers and artists, took these photographs over the course of three decades—primarily as gifts to his subjects, such...
by Thomas L. Higgins MD, Linda S. Baillargeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Baystate Medical Center was established in 1976 with the merger of the Medical Center of Western Massachusetts and Wesson Memorial Hospital. Baystate�s roots extend to 1870, when Springfield City Hospital was one of just 178 acute-care hospitals in the United States. It was renamed Springfield Hospital...