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A Shoemaker´s Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town
Anthony W. Lee
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Description for A Shoemaker´s Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town
Hardback. On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in New England. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then their new employer lined them up and had them photographed. This work seeks to understand the social forces that brought this photograph into being, and the events it subsequently spawned. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 color illus. 136 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; AJCR; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 971.
On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker's Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand the social forces that brought this now-famous photograph into being, and the events and images it subsequently spawned. He traces the rise of photography as a profession and ... Read more
On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker's Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand the social forces that brought this now-famous photograph into being, and the events and images it subsequently spawned. He traces the rise of photography as a profession and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691133256
SKU
V9780691133256
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About Anthony W. Lee
Anthony W. Lee is associate professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College. His books include "Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco" and "Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics, and San Francisco's Public Murals".
Reviews for A Shoemaker´s Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town
"Generously illustrated with many extraordinary photographs, A Shoemaker's Story brings 1870s America to vivid life. Combining painstaking research with world-class storytelling, Lee illuminates an important episode in the social history of the United States, and reveals the extent to which photographs can be sites of intense historical struggle."
Spartacus Educational "Although some historians might be put off by Lee's narrative style, ... Read more
Spartacus Educational "Although some historians might be put off by Lee's narrative style, ... Read more