The Photography Of Henry K Landis

Download or read book The Photography of Henry K. Landis written by Oscar Beisert and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs documenting a diverse array of lifestyles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Pennsylvania and New York by amateur photographer Henry K. Landis (1865-1955) Rich views of turn-of-the-century street life of immigrant communities in New York City, comfortable middle-class lifestyles in Brooklyn and Manhattan, and boating and leisure on Long Island Shots of natural areas in Central Pennsylvania, the agricultural living of the Pennsylvania Dutch in Lancaster, and the beginnings of the photographerâ (TM)s Landis Valley Museum, housing his vast collections of artifacts