Cinema buffs will treasure this one-of-a-kind facsimile edition of the first published history of film, reproduced from W.K.L. Dickson’s own annotated copy of his ground-breaking 1895 volume. Dickson, co-author with his sister Antonia of this book and of The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison (1894), headed the team at Edison’s New Jersey laboratory that was attempting to build “an instrument which does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear. “The results of their efforts were the kinetograph (the camera used for photographing motion pictures) and the kinetoscope (the means for viewing them). Acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1940, Dickson’s book is a unique document that allows the reader to experience the wonder and promise of the cinema in its infancy.

History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope and Kinetophonograph (Literature of Cinema)

Humor & Entertainment

Dickson, W.K.L.

Dickson, Antonia

Movies

Ayer

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Tent Life in Siberia: A New Account of an Old Undertaking

Travel

KENNAN, George

Asia

1990 reprint of the classic work originally published in 1905. Lavishly illustrated, Mrs. King Van Rensselaer describes Newport in her time and provides a robust history going back to its original settlement. Chapters include Climate; Society; Bellevue Avenue; The Cliff Walk; The Ocean Drive and Kindred Spur Roads; The Beautiful Harbor of Newport; History and First Settlement; On the Verge of Revolution; Newport During the War; British and French Occupation of Newport; Religious Founders; Freemasons; Native and Visiting Artists; Backward Glances; Women of Newport; Slave-Ships, Pirates, and Privateersmen; Newport Naval Heroes, and Centres of Interest. Includes 95 illustrations, plus a fold-out map of Newport and a Key to Residences and Points of Interest.

Newport, our social capital (The Leisure class in America)

Van Rensselaer, John King

The Historic American Merchant Marine Survey: Works Progress Administration, Federal project no. 6

Historic American Merchant Marine Survey

Decisions under uncertainty: Drilling decisions by oil and gas operators (Energy in the American economy)

Engineering & Transportation

Grayson, C. Jackson

Engineering

<p>The centenary chronicle of the colored Catholic clergy, GOD'S MEN OF COLOR is a fascinating sequel to BISHOP BELOVED OUTCASTE, the biography of the second Bishop of Maine. In a series of life histories, GOD'S MEN OF COLOR traces the increasing importance of the colored clergy in the United States—their triumphs as pioneer priests, as pastors and missionaries, as diocesan officials and religious order superiors, as semi- nary rectors and university presidents, as speakers, writers, editors, executives, giant men of God and simple, retiring spiritual fathers. Richard J. Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, states in his "The priesthood was instituted by Christ our Lord for all men. Individual priests must represent all groups of men; they must not be selected according to arbitrary standards imposed by human prejudice and preference. It is our sacred responsibility to welcome into the Church everyone who is brought to its doors by the light of faith. . . ." The biographical portraits are framed within the setting of the communities and families out of which these priests came, and the result is both a broad panorama of an increasingly important factor in American Catholic life and a major contribution to the religious history of the past one hundred years.</p>

God's Men of Color: The Colored Catholic Priests of the United States 1854-1954

Foley, Albert S.

Religion & Spirituality

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