Name/Title
Picturesque America Volume 2Entry/Object ID
2017.64.2Description
Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton's Journal. It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), who also edited the New York Evening Post. The layout and concept was similar to that of Picturesque Europe. The work's essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States
Volume II engravings
Highlands and Palisades of the Hudson
Philadelphia and its Suburbs
Northern New Jersey
Valley of the Connecticut
Baltimore and Environs
The Catskills
The Juniata
On the Ohio
The Plains and the Sierras
The Susquehanna
Boston
Lake George and Lake Champlain
Mount Mansfield
Valley of the Housatonic
The Upper Mississippi
Valley of the Genesee
St. Lawrence and the Saguenay
Eastern Shore
The Adirondack Region
The Connecticut Shore of the Sound
Lake Memphremagog
The Mohawk, Albany and Troy
The Upper Delaware
Water-Falls at Cayuga Lake
The Rocky Mountains
The Canons of the Colorado
Chicago and Milwaukee
A Glance at the Northwest
The Mammoth Cave
New York and Brooklyn
Washington; PHYSDESC: bound in red and blue leather with gilt title, cover decoration, accents, and page edges. Interior cover and frontispiece covered in red, white, and black, decorated pages. L. 13", W. 10.5", D. 2.5"Collection
BooksCreate Date
May 25, 2017
