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Review Notices
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Casper and Catherine Move to America: An Immigrant Family's Adventures, 1849–1850
By Brian Hasler
Illustrations by Angela M. Gouge
Introduction by Barbara Truesdell
Afterword by M. Teresa Baer
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(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 32. Maps, illustrations. $17.95.)
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Within the covers of this nicely illustrated book lies a typical story of nineteenth-century pioneer "courage, faith, and determination" (p. vii)—with a twenty-first century twist. Brian Hasler, who lives in the Evansville area, imagines a day in the future when his now toddler son comes home from school baffled by the arrival of a Costa Rican immigrant. The son's questions spark the father's recital of an adventure involving "sailing ships, stagecoaches, riverboats, and covered wagons," with a moral for a modern "nation of immigrants." Truesdell's introduction outlines the place of such family "legends" and Baer's afterword shows how modern-day genealogist-"detectives" track a family in census and vital records. If you are a descendant of Casper and Catherine, this is a must-own. If not, it will interest your children and may even inspire you to write your own family history.
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Indiana in Stereo: Three-Dimensional Views of the Heartland
Edited by George R. Hanlin and Paula J. Corpuz
Essays by Anne E. Peterson, Joan E. Hostetler, and Darryl Jones Photographs by Darryl Jones
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(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 289. Illustrations, notes, table, glossary, bibliography. $34.95.)
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This well-designed and handsomely produced small book will appeal to anyone interested in period photographs of the Hoosier state and to those interested in historic photographic techniques. Beginning with two informative essays on stereographs in general and stereography in Indiana, the volume continues with several topical chapters of vintage stereographs. Stereo photographs of landscapes, buildings, street scenes, workplaces, forms of transportation, family groups, and other subjects can be enjoyed with a small stereo viewer included with the book. A concluding essay, written by well-known photographer Darryl Jones, is followed by a collection of his new color stereographs. The book also includes a table identifying Indiana stereographers.
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The Photography of Ben Winans of Brookville, Indiana, 1902–1926
By Donald L. Dunaway
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(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 172. Illustrations. Paperbound, $24.95.)
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During the first years of the twentieth century Ben Winans, a printer from the small town of Brookville, Indiana, took up the hobby (later the business) of photography. This volume reproduces several dozen of Winans's best photographs and, in so doing, offers a glimpse of midwestern small-town life during the first two decades of the 1900s. In addition to the usual formal portraits and pictures of buildings, churches, schools, and streets, Winan photographed scenes from the lives of the townspeople. He captured the local marching band in the town's 1902 Decoration Day parade; men lined up to vote at the Hose Company No. 5 firehouse; a traveling salesman for "J. R. Watkins Medical Co."; a family reunion in the park on a summer day; and a 1907 sharpshooter performing in the "Buckskin Ben" Wild West show. Winans also captured the harsher realities of life, especially in a series of photos taken during the devastation of a 1913 flood.
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Centennial Farms of Indiana
Edited by M. Teresa Baer, Kathleen M. Breen, and Judith Q. McMullen
Genealogical indexes by Ruth Dorrell. . . |
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