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Pageant of America chronicles a ten thousand image quest
Yale University Press showcases The Pageant of America a fifteen volume pictorial history. Elmo Scott Watson notes John Trumbull and Yale’s effort to gather authentic portraits engravings and documents from private collections museums and archives across continents. The project cost over 382000 and produced the first comprehensive pictorial sourcebook for American history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Capitol
Washington
John Trumbull
Connecticut
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Yale University
John, Trumbull
Trumbull
America
Americana
Yale University ‘Press
Yale
Herd
Asia
Europe
Carpini
Marco Polo
Columbus
Adam of Bremen
Vinland
Staats Bibliothek
Vienna
Jovius
Paulus Jovius
Nocera
Berlin
Baron Friederich, Riedesel
Hesslang
Willam F. Harnden
Express Dusiness
United States
March of Commerce
Harnden
Stimson
The
Express Companies
American’ Railway Express Company
M. Baker
Daguerreotype
Expresa
Harndens
New England
Staf
Western Newspaper Union