Screen LibraryA shoe-maker's story：being chiefly about French Canadian immigrants, enterprising photographers, rascal Yankees, and Chinese cobblers in a nineteenth-century factory town
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | vii, 303 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780691133256 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691133255 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K712 |
| CLC: |
K712.9 D771.238-09 D771.238 |
| Call Number: | K712.9/L477 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Chapter One: What the Shoe Manufacturer Saw -- Chapter Two: What the Photographers Saw -- Chapter Three: What the Crispins Saw -- Chapter Four: What the Chinese Saw -- Postscript. "On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then--remarkably--their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker's Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand the social forces that brought this now-famous photograph into being, and the events and images it subsequently spawned. He traces the rise of pho |