Barns (Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780393730869
First sentence: Writing in 1787 that "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," Thomas Jefferson promoted the virtues of a country devoted to agriculture hoping that the United States would one day become a nation of farmers.
Description: "The body of this book offers a treasury of images - photographs, many by noted photographers - as well as plans and elevations, with captions that furnish relevant information about each building and region: subject, location, date, creator(s) of the image, and Library of Congress call number. The accompanying CD-ROM contains high-quality, downloadable versions of all the illustrations. It offers a direct link to the Library's online, searchable catalogs and image files, including the hundreds of thousands of high-resolution photographs, measured drawings, and data files in the Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, and other collections. A comprehensive and unique visual resource, Barns will be invaluable to students; teachers; researchers; historians of art, architecture, design, and technology; architects; engineers; designers of all kinds; and those who love barns."--Jacket.