The Lost POanoramas of the Mississippi
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover, map endpapers, xi+ 211 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with numerous reproductions of 19th century documents, posters, engravings, paintings. In 1846, John Banvard, who wanted to "paint the biggest picture in the world", unrolled before the audience the first of the huge, moving "panoramas" of the Mississippi. These entertainments spread around the world, providing the public with a combination newsreel-travelogue-documentary "movie" in which one long pictorial canvass rolled between two revolving cylinders. This work tells the story of five of the most famous panoramas of the places and people along the Mississippi as well as their makers. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. fine / very good. Item #E19505
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