Joan Paterson Kerr (–1996)
Author of American Album
About the Author
Works by Joan Paterson Kerr
The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (1974) — Editor — 123 copies
Associated Works
Founding Fathers Biographies in Their Own Words: John Adams (1973) — Picture editor — 59 copies, 2 reviews
Founding Fathers Biographies in Their Own Words: Thomas Jefferson (1974) — Picture editor — 24 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- c. 1921
- Date of death
- 1996-11-21
- Gender
- female
- Organizations
- American Heritage
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Reviews
A "family album" of a vanished America, these photographs cover a 75-year period from 1839 to World War I. A fascinating array of images; I have always been intrigued by old photographs. They show the reality of the past as no other medium can. Pg. 326, by the by, has a couple from around the turn of the last century, posed on a pair of Henry Shaw's giant lily pads in his Tower Grove Park. But all of these photographs are compelling and evocative, and they are annotated as well as could be show more done considering their antiquity. show less
Wonderful coffee table style book. Hugely influenced my interest in early photography.
Cover subtitle: How we looked and how we lived in a vanished U.S.A./ Reprint. Originally published: New York : American Heritage Pub. Co., 1968. With new introd.
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- Works
- 3
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 344
- Popularity
- #69,364
- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 11