Helena E Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena E Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena E |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT H E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Osborne collection
1888 was an important year for the Smithsonian's graphic arts collections. Not only did it mark the exhibiting of photography as a separate entity in America, as shown at the Cincinnati Exposition, but it was also the year that John Walter Osborne donated a unique collection of early photomechanical prints to the National Museum. The Osborne Collection was received just in time to be included in the print exhibition that the graphic arts curator,…
Developing a photographic collection
When the Smithsonian Institution was established by act of Congress in 1846, the new science of photography was only seven years old. For most of the past century and a half, photography and the national collection have grown up together, and the story of the Smithsonian's photography collection offers a number of comparisons with developments and changes in the field as well as with the evolution of other national museums.1 In the mid-nineteenth…
The Origins of Photojournalism in America
The Origins of Photojournalism in America by Michael L. Carlebach
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 197 secret of the surviving iron producers, according to Ingham, lay not in competing with the large steel firms, but in carving out profitable niches for themselves. This might involve, for example, producing specialty items that steel firms would not bother with, or filling customer needs by offering a variety of both iron and steel products. As a consequence, the amount of iron produced in Pittsburgh continu…
George Pullman and the Allen Paper Car Wheel
The Cover Design GEORGE PULLMAN AND THE ALLEN PAPER CAR WHEEL HELENA E. WRIGHT In 1889, the tradejournal Inland Printer reported, “The world has seen its iron age, its stone age, its golden age, and its brazen age. This is the Age of Paper. We are making so many things of paper that it will soon be true that without paper there is nothing made that is made. We live in paper houses, wear paper clothing, and sit on paper cushions in paper cars, rol…
Etched in Memory
Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America . Marjorie B. Cohn
Pictures to Print
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Booh Reviews 629 or providing for new collecting and public requirements. Twentiethcentury officials have had to make sense ofthe overall building, provid ing links between wings and greater ease of movement between levels and spaces of the various components added incrementally a century ago. New techniques oflighting and climate control have been incorpo rated and decorative and structural elements restored and upgraded…
Pictures to Print
Historic America
The Merrimack Valley Textile Museum
Habs
Architecture seems a perfect embodiment of technology and culture, combining as it does the structural elements of a building with the aesthetic elements of style. Function and form intermingle in a good building, and, when the architect has succeeded, both precepts emerge to make a statement about time and place, use and context. Thus it would appear that an exhibit celebrating the first fifty years of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HAB…
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Historic America
The Merrimack Valley Textile Museum
Habs
Architecture seems a perfect embodiment of technology and culture, combining as it does the structural elements of a building with the aesthetic elements of style. Function and form intermingle in a good building, and, when the architect has succeeded, both precepts emerge to make a statement about time and place, use and context. Thus it would appear that an exhibit celebrating the first fifty years of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HAB…
Pictures to Print
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Booh Reviews 629 or providing for new collecting and public requirements. Twentiethcentury officials have had to make sense ofthe overall building, provid ing links between wings and greater ease of movement between levels and spaces of the various components added incrementally a century ago. New techniques oflighting and climate control have been incorpo rated and decorative and structural elements restored and upgraded…
Pictures to Print
Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America . Marjorie B. Cohn
Etched in Memory
George Pullman and the Allen Paper Car Wheel
The Cover Design GEORGE PULLMAN AND THE ALLEN PAPER CAR WHEEL HELENA E. WRIGHT In 1889, the tradejournal Inland Printer reported, “The world has seen its iron age, its stone age, its golden age, and its brazen age. This is the Age of Paper. We are making so many things of paper that it will soon be true that without paper there is nothing made that is made. We live in paper houses, wear paper clothing, and sit on paper cushions in paper cars, rol…
The Origins of Photojournalism in America
The Origins of Photojournalism in America by Michael L. Carlebach
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 197 secret of the surviving iron producers, according to Ingham, lay not in competing with the large steel firms, but in carving out profitable niches for themselves. This might involve, for example, producing specialty items that steel firms would not bother with, or filling customer needs by offering a variety of both iron and steel products. As a consequence, the amount of iron produced in Pittsburgh continu…
The Osborne collection
1888 was an important year for the Smithsonian's graphic arts collections. Not only did it mark the exhibiting of photography as a separate entity in America, as shown at the Cincinnati Exposition, but it was also the year that John Walter Osborne donated a unique collection of early photomechanical prints to the National Museum. The Osborne Collection was received just in time to be included in the print exhibition that the graphic arts curator,…
Developing a photographic collection
When the Smithsonian Institution was established by act of Congress in 1846, the new science of photography was only seven years old. For most of the past century and a half, photography and the national collection have grown up together, and the story of the Smithsonian's photography collection offers a number of comparisons with developments and changes in the field as well as with the evolution of other national museums.1 In the mid-nineteenth…
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