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Author
Publisher
Prospecta Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"IOWA: Echoes of a Vanishing Landscape contains 89 of [David Ottenstein's] black and white photographs and includes texts by Alan Trachtenberg of Yale University and Jonathan Andelson, director of the Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. The book explores the transformation of the Iowa landscape from one based on the agrarian notion of the small, diversified farm to a landscape geared toward industrial scale agriculture. [Ottenstein's]...
Author
Publisher
America Through Time
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"If you have ever wondered what is hiding up at the other end of weed covered driveways on dusty Iowa country roads, wonder no longer. Walk with Julie Bronson as she takes readers on a tour around and through some of the old farmsteads that are forgotten today. Beautifully aged wood and stone, appearing to be frozen in another time, come to life through the camera lens. Admire the people and practices of long ago and witness these structures before...
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