Rufus Porter's Curious World
Subtitle: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780271084954
Description: "An examination of Rufus Porter, an enigmatic but astonishingly productive American artist, inventor, and publisher. Presents his life and work in the context of the cultural, social, and technological networks that shaped innovation and democracy during the antebellum era"--