
The Last Muster, Volume 2
Faces of the American Revolution
Maureen Taylor(Author)
Kent State University Press
Published on 30. July 2013
Book
Hardback
142 pages
978-1-60635-182-6 (ISBN)
Description
Maureen Taylor, America's foremost historical photo detective, continues her quest to document the Revolutionary War generation with this collection of rare nineteenth-century photographic images. Primarily comprised of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and carte de visite paper photographs, this collection of nearly sixty images presents new works of photography and art. It assigns faces to a previously un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation's Founding Fathers and Mothers, updating and supplementing research published over a century ago.
Taylor explains how she collected the images for this project and describes the exhaustive research involved in dating and identifying each image. She also explains the process she used for investigating the story and genealogy of each subject. The array of images is expansive and includes veterans, loyalists, Native Americans, African Americans, children, and women. Although the faces are old and wizened, the stories they tell are of youthful bravery in the early days of the Republic.
The Last Muster, Volume 2 continues the author's contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the early Republic, and photography. Through these portraits and the accompanying narrative, readers have the opportunity to relive the Revolutionary War.
Taylor explains how she collected the images for this project and describes the exhaustive research involved in dating and identifying each image. She also explains the process she used for investigating the story and genealogy of each subject. The array of images is expansive and includes veterans, loyalists, Native Americans, African Americans, children, and women. Although the faces are old and wizened, the stories they tell are of youthful bravery in the early days of the Republic.
The Last Muster, Volume 2 continues the author's contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the early Republic, and photography. Through these portraits and the accompanying narrative, readers have the opportunity to relive the Revolutionary War.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kent, OH
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
55+ illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 186 mm
Width: 239 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
621 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60635-182-6 (9781606351826)
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Person
Maureen Taylor is an internationally known expert on photo identification. She travels extensively giving presentations on photo identification, photo preservation, and family history. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on NBC s Today Show, ABC s The View, and National Public Radio.