Photography
Discover the best photography books, including top titles and cool photography guides for photographers of all levels.
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Winston-Salem: A Twin City HistoryNot just home to Old Salem and tobacco tycoons, Winston-Salem has more stories to tell. Author Michael Bricker chronicles the history of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in this interesting and accessible account that spans from the development of Moravian Salem and industrial Winston to the...
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Hidden History of FlintBeneath Flint's auto history lies a buried past. Local Civil War hero Franklin Thompson was actually Sarah Edmonds in disguise. Thread Lake's Lakeside Amusement Park offered seaplane rides and a giant roller coaster partly built over the water before closing in 1931. Smith-Bridgman's, the...
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Black Elk Peak: A HistoryAuthor: Bradley D. SaumPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublished: 05/22/2017Pages: 178Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44dISBN: 9781540216236This title is not returnable
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Haunted Put-In-BayBehind Put-in-Bay's breathtaking scenery and wild nightlife is a side of the island that will make your hair stand on end. Passersby claim to see the ghost of assistant lighthouse keeper Sam Anderson, who jumped to his death in the turbulent water of Lake...
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Jacktown: History & Hard Times at Michigan S First State PrisonCompeting with the likes of Detroit and Ann Arbor, Jackson won the battle to build Michigan s first state prison in 1838. During the era of the Big House and industrial growth, the penitentiary s on-site factories and cheap inmate labor helped Jackson become...
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Cape May CountyNew Jersey s historic Cape May County, on a peninsula situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Delaware Bay, was named for Cornelis Mey (later May), a Dutch captain who sailed past her shores in the early 1600s. English-speaking whalers and farmers from New...
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The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas: Swindling Slaver Monroe EdwardsAfter Monroe Edwards died in Sing Sing prison in 1847, penny dreadfuls memorialized him as the most celebrated American forger until the turn of the century. With a bizarre biography too complicated for easy history, his critical contributions to Texas settlement, revolution and annexation...
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Connecticut Pirates & Privateers: Treasure and Treachery in the Constitution StateThe waters, inlets and islands of Connecticut once swarmed with fabled corsairs like Captain Kidd and Blackbeard who may have buried their booty in Constitution State soil. In colonial times and through the nineteenth century, over one hundred privateers used the Connecticut River and...
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Victorian Cape MayElegant remnants of the Victorian era grace almost every corner of Cape May. Wealthy locals built opulent homes like the Emlen Physick Estate and the George Allen House, while grand hotels like Congress Hall and the Chalfonte welcomed visitors from around the country. Even...
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Hidden History of the Sebago Lakes RegionQuirky characters and surprising events have shaped a robust community history throughout the Sebago Lakes region. Nathaniel Hawthorne's lost boyhood diary offers a glimpse into his early writing days on the shore of Sebago Lake. Henry Clay Barnabee, once called the funniest man of...
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Pittsburgh Irish: Erin on the Three RiversPresbyterians from the Irish province of Ulster were among the first to push the wild frontier west and found the city of Pittsburgh. By the 1840s, the flow of Irish Catholic immigrants had become a flood. Fleeing the great hunger and facing resentment in...
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Wild Women of Maryland: Grit & Gumption in the Free StateThe daring women of Maryland made their mark on history as spies, would-be queens and fiery suffragettes. Sarah Wilson escaped indentured servitude in Frederick by impersonating the queen's sister. In Cumberland, Sallie Pollock smuggled letters for top Confederate officials. Baltimore journalist Marguerite Harrison snuck...
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Long Island and the Civil War: Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties During the War Between the StatesAlthough no battles were fought on Long Island, the Civil War deeply affected all of its residents. More than three thousand men--white and black--from current-day Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties answered the call to preserve the Union. While Confederate ships lurked within eight miles...
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Waterbury Irish: From the Emerald Isle to the Brass CityThe hard work of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants in Waterbury helped place the city on the map as the Brass Capital of the World. In the early years of immigration, Irish Catholics held Mass in secret, but eventually beautiful churches were built, attracting the most...
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A Guide to Historic PlymouthAuthor: James W. BakerPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublished: 03/14/2008Pages: 146Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9781540204530This title is not returnable
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Wicked Bay City, MichiganFrom unscrupulous lumber barons to Hell s Half Mile, Bay City history casts a sinister shadow. Pope Leo XIII was forced to intervene when rioting Catholic immigrants seized St. Stanislaus Catholic Church and battled one another in the city s streets. The police discovered...
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Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre MedicineBody snatcher. Grave robber. Mad scientist. Brilliant surgeon. Delve into the macabre world of St. Louis s Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell, a man so loathed by the public that he wore body armor and so idolized by his anatomy students that they dug up...
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Early Ascents on Pikes PeakMagnificent Pikes Peak rises dramatically from the Colorado prairie to a height of 14,114 feet above sea level. Visible for one hundred miles around, the granite giant's magnetic appeal compelled rugged mountaineers more than a century ago to risk loose saddles, electrical storms and...
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Hidden History of Maritime New JerseyAn estimated three thousand shipwrecks lie off the coast of New Jersey but these icy waters hold more mysteries than sunken hulls. Ancient arrowheads found on the shoreline of Sandy Hook reveal Native American settlement before the land was flooded by melting glaciers. In...
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Pittsfield's Fosburgh Murder Mystery: Scandal in the BerkshiresShots rang out in a prominent Pittsfield family home on the morning of August 20, 1900, ending the life of young socialite May Fosburgh. Who pulled the trigger was unclear, and the scandal captivated attention well beyond the Berkshires. Her brother was a top...
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