Forgotten Faces - A Window Into Our Immigrant Past reveals; for the first time; lost American history encapsulated in a beautiful but neglected art form. Forgotten Faces is the first book to explore memorial portraiture as a distinctive art form and acknowledge its contribution to our country’s valued history. In doing so; it reveals a never-before-published photo-panorama of American immigration at the turn of the twentieth century. Forgotten Faces presents a first-ever collection of over 350 well-preserved photo-ceramic memorial portraits. The beginning of a series titled; Forgotten Faces – America’s Lost History; it demonstrates how a similarly beautiful collection of memorial portraits awaits discovery and exhibition from every major city in the United States. Photo-Ceramic memorial portraits are photographs of the deceased mounted directly on their tombstones. They are made of ceramics the quality of the finest china but made to last outdoors for centuries. This edition now includes 10 pages of color plates - including rare images of immigrants from 28 different nations. It includes examples from Colma; California’s historic Holy Cross and Italian cemeteries as well as other U.S. and European locations. Forgotten Faces details the technology; history and cultural influence of memorial portraits as both art and artifact. Forgotten Faces alerts readers to the fact these treasured artifacts are vanishing from our heritage and recommends methods for documenting them before they disappear.
#534419 in Books 2016-10-11Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 1.00 x 6.30l; .0 #File Name: 0966925874160 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Way History Books Should ReadBy Jane KiseThere is nothing boring about history--except how it is taught and/or written about all too often. Instead of teaching students to dread learning about the past; why not unearth the stories that make history come alive; as Anderson has done in both this volume and [book:Tillie Pierce: Teen Eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg|15948944]?Meticulously researched; filled with anecdotes and photos to make the events come alive; and completed with ties to historical and ongoing struggles for women's rights; this book is well worth the read for anyone; but especially as a classroom centerpiece to help students understand why they should crave studying and researching history.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A much needed bookBy crkA part of history that is often overlooked--the contribution of women and young girls during wartime in the United States. Very informative and well written. I highly recommend it.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Three Civil War Era DisastersBy ClifThis book is an account of three major disasters that occurred during the American Civil War that resulted in the deaths of a large number of young women. War causes death; and the Civil War certainly caused many thousands of deaths. But these stories of mostly poor and young immigrant women working long hours at the assembly of ammunition cartridges are especially sad and tragic.Theses young women were assembling cartridges for use in muskets and rifles. In all three instances covered by this book the gunpowder with which they were working was accidentally set off into horrific explosions. The locations and dates of the three explosions covered by this book and the resulting number of deaths are listed below: Allegheny Arsenal...........................78 deaths Lawrenceville; PA September 17; 1862 Confederate States Laboratory........45 deaths Richmond; VA March 13; 1863 Washington Arsenal..........................21 deaths Washington; D.C. June 17; 1864This book is targeted toward a young adult readership and is well illustrated. It contains numerous interesting sidebar snippets of information. The personal stories about some of the victims are particularly poignant. I believe it is the sort of book that YA's will find to be interesting and educational.
