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Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan
Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan
Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan
Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan
Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan
Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan
Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan
Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan

Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan


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Colorado on Glass First half century photographs by Terry Mangan
 
Colorado on Glass Mangan first half century as seen by the camera
Colorados first half century as seen by the camera.  Dust Jacket.  Copyright 1975, first edition, second printing.  406 pages.  Table of Contents: In the beginning, Gold Rush, William Gunnison Chamberlain, Apparatus, Galleries, William Henry Jackson, Album of the 1870s, New Horizon, Women, Album of 1880s, Color, speed & Motion, Album of 1890s, Denouement, directory of early photographers, index.  

Colorado On Glass by Terry Wm. Mangan  BOOK # 00501   FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING
Hard Cover with Plastic Covering
406 pages
Copyright 1975

Table of Contents
Frontispiece  .
Foreword  y
Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction ix
Chapter I - In the Beginning  001
Chapter II - Gold Rush 011
Chapter III - William Gunnison Chamberlain  031
Chapter IV - Apparatus  061
Chapter V - Galleries  071
Chapter VI - William Henry Jackson  099
Album of the 1870's  149
Chapter VH - New Horizons  177
Chapter VIII - Women 189
Album of the 1880's  227
Chapter IX - Color, Speed and Motion  289
Album of the 1890's  337
Denouement  381
Appendix  385
Footnotes  387
Directory of Early Photographers  391
Index  401

Introduction
From the Colorado gold rush of 1859-when miners posed before the hooded cameras of itinerant "Ambrotypists"-until the early part of this century-when flexible plastic film provided an unbreakable support for photographic emulsions-the visual record of the history of the state was preserved on fragile, ephemeral sheets of plate glass. From the plush surroundings of the Victorian photographic galleries to the rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountains, the plates were transported, sensitized, exposed, developed and stabilized-to capture on glass the image of the rapidly changing face of the Centennial State. From this media, the photographs in this book have been taken; they are, perhaps, typical of Colorado photography during the pioneer age.
A sense of what it was like to be alive in another age cannot be conveyed so accurately by any other means. The horsecar rattling down Larimer Street in Denver, or the first train into Aspen, are as real as the Eiffel Tower to those of us who have never seen either for ourselves. We have almost as much contact with places far removed in time as we do with places far removed in distance. This great accessibility into the past is a product of photography, and the recent increase of interest in this media as a channel into the Victorian Age, had brought the art/science into the center of our attention.

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