Baxter, Sylvester 1850-1927
Most widely held works by
Sylvester Baxter
Looking backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (
Book
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25
editions published
between
1887
and
1931
in
English
and held by
677
libraries
worldwide
This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century of sleep. West's initial sense of wonder, his gradual acceptance of the new order and a new love, and Bellamy's wonderful prophetic inventions-electric lighting, shopping malls, credit cards, electronic broadcasting-ensured the mass popularity of this 1888 novel. But however rich in fantasy and romance, Looking Backward is a passionate attack on the social ills of nineteenth-century industrialism and a plea for social reform and moral renewal. In her introduction, Cecelia Tichi discusses how the novel echoes the anguish and hopes of its own age while it embodies a sustaining myth of the American literary tradition-that man's perfectibility is attainable in the New World
The Southwest in the American imagination : the writings of Sylvester Baxter, 1881-1889 by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
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4
editions published
in
1996
in
English
and held by
220
libraries
worldwide
In the fall of 1886, Boston philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway sponsored an archaeological expedition to the American Southwest. Directed by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, the Hemenway Expedition sought to trace the ancestors of the ZuAis with an eye toward establishing a museum for the study of American Indians. In the third year of fieldwork, Hemenway's overseeing board fired Cushing based on doubts concerning his physical health and mental stability, and much of the expedition's work went unpublished. Today, however, it is recognized as a critical base for research into all of southwestern prehistory. Drawing on materials housed in half a dozen institutions and now brought together for the first time, this projected seven-volume work presents a cultural history of the Hemenway Expedition and early anthropology in the American Southwest, told in the voices of its participants and interpreted by contemporary scholars. Taken as a whole, the series comprises a thorough study and presentation of the cultural, historical, literary, and archaeological significance of the expedition, with each volume posing distinct themes and problems through a set of original writings such as letters, reports, and diaries. Accompanying essays guide readers to a coherent understanding of the history of the expedition and discuss the cultural and scientific significance of these data in modern debates. This first volume, "The Southwest in the American Imagination," presents the writings of Sylvester Baxter, a journalist who became Cushing's friend and publicist in the early 1880s and who traveled to the Southwest and wrote accounts of the expedition. Included are Baxter's early writings aboutCushing and the Southwest, from 1881 to 1883, which reported enthusiastically on the anthropologist's work and lifestyle at ZuAi before the expedition. Also included are published accounts of the Hemenway Expedition and its scientific promise, from 1888 to 1889, drawing on Baxter's central role in expedition affairs as secretary-treasurer of the advisory board. Series co-editor Curtis Hinsley provides an introductory essay that reviews Baxter's relationship with Cushing and his career as a journalist and civic activist in Boston, and a closing essay that inquires further into the lasting implications of the "invention of the Southwest," arguing that this aesthetic was central to the emergence and development of southwestern archaeology. Seen a century later, the Hemenway Expedition provides unusual insights into such themes as the formation of a Southwestern identity, the roots of museum anthropology, gender relations and social reform in the late nineteenth century, and the grounding of American nationhood in prehistoric cultures. It also conveys an intellectual struggle, ongoing today, to understand cultures that are different from the dominant culture and to come to grips with questions concerning America's meaning and destiny
La arquitectura hispano colonial en México by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
)
9
editions published
in
1934
in
Spanish
and held by
129
libraries
worldwide
The legend of the Holy Grail as set forth in the frieze painted by Edwin A. Abbey for the Boston Public library by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
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4
editions published
between
1904
and
2015
in
English
and held by
100
libraries
worldwide
This is a description of each of the fourteen panels of Abbey's painting
Fatinitza : comic opera by Franz von Suppé (
score
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10
editions published
between
1879
and
1969
in
English and No Linguistic Content
and held by
98
libraries
worldwide
Spanish-colonial architecture in Mexico by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
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7
editions published
in
1901
in
English
and held by
85
libraries
worldwide
The majority of these photographs of colonial architecture in Mexico illustrate churches and other religious buildings, though secular structures are covered as well. Views include exteriors, interiors, and details of architectural sculpture. Coverage includes buildings at the following sites: Celaya, Coyoacán, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, Guadalupe, Guanajuato, Ixtacalco, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luís Potosí, San Miguel de Allende, Morelia, Tasco, Tepozotlán, Tlaxcala, Tzintzúntzan, and Zacatecas
Boston park guide : including the municipal and metropolitan systems of Greater Boston by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
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9
editions published
between
1895
and
1898
in
English
and held by
37
libraries
worldwide
The Morse collection of Japanese pottery by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
)
8
editions published
between
1887
and
2012
in
English
and held by
33
libraries
worldwide
The Hotel Cluny of a New England village by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
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3
editions published
between
1901
and
1986
in
English
and held by
29
libraries
worldwide
The cruise of a land-yacht by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
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7
editions published
between
1891
and
1964
in
English
and held by
28
libraries
worldwide
Plastic sketches, of J.G. and J.F. Low : forty-seven illustrations by J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm) (
Book
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2
editions published
in
1887
in
English
and held by
23
libraries
worldwide
A portfolio highlighting the work Arthur Osborne produced for the J.G. & J.F. Low tile company. Osborne's "plastic sketches" were decorative tiles made by molds derived from his original models. The booklet contains an essay by Sylvester Baxter and 47 loose heliotype plates printed in various tints
The unseen house, and other poems by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
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4
editions published
between
1917
and
2016
in
English
and held by
21
libraries
worldwide
An artist's sketch book of old Marblehead by Lester G Hornby (
Book
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1
edition published
in
1906
in
English
and held by
18
libraries
worldwide
Spanish-colonial architecture in Mexico by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
)
5
editions published
between
1901
and
2016
in
English
and held by
13
libraries
worldwide
El texto de este libro constituye uno de los primeros intentos serios por estudiar y conservar la arquitectura del periodo colonial en México. Baxter, quien viajó por el país a principios del siglo pasado, considera una cuestión de vital importancia el rescate de los monumentos de uno de sus periodos arquitectónicos más ricos. El libro ha sido ilustrado con las fotografías de Henry G. Peabody, fotógrafo, €conferenciante y editor de diapositivas y docum entales educativos, las cuales€documentan con dramatismo las condiciones, muchas veces deplorables, de las construcciones coloniales mexicanas
Golden New England by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
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2
editions published
in
1910
in
English
and held by
9
libraries
worldwide
The viking's last voyage by G. W Chadwick (
score
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4
editions published
between
1881
and
1909
in
English
and held by
8
libraries
worldwide
The ring and the tree and other poems by Sylvester Baxter (
Book
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1
edition published
in
1938
in
English
and held by
7
libraries
worldwide
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Associated Subjects
Agriculture American fiction Antiquities Architecture Architecture, Colonial Art pottery Art--Private collections Bas-relief Baxter, Sylvester, Bisbee, Marvin Davis, Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra--Vocal scores with piano City planning Clement, E. H.--(Edward Henry), Cushing, Frank Hamilton, Decoration and ornament, Architectural English English fiction Fiction Grail in art Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition Historic sites Indians of North America J.G. & J.F. Low (Firm) Massachusetts Massachusetts--Boston Massachusetts--Boston Metropolitan Area Massachusetts--Ipswich Massachusetts--Marblehead Mexico Morse, Edward Sylvester, New England New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company Operas--Vocal scores with piano Osborne, Arthur Parks Pottery, Japanese Pottery--Private collections Railroads Science fiction Sculpture, American Socialism Social problems Southwest, New Tiles Time travel Travel Twentieth century Two thousand, A.D Utopias Zuni Indians
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Alternative Names
Baxter, Silvester 1850-1927 Baxter, Silvestre 1850-1927 Sylvester Baxter American newspaper writer and urban planner
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