Schulman, Vanessa Meikle,  1981- <br/><br/>
Work sights :  the visual culture of industry in nineteenth-century America / 
Vanessa Meikle Schulman. 
 - Amherst and Boston :  University of Massachusetts Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Science/Technology/Culture .
<br/><br/> Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Irvine, 2010) under title: Managing vision, envisioning management : representations of labor and technological systems in Gilded Age America. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : Behold the Lightning Chained and Bound --  Between Materiality and Magic : Representing the Railroad and the Telegraph --  "Where Vulcan Is the Presiding Genius" : John Ferguson Weir, Metallurgy, and the Alchemical Sublime --  Swords into Ploughshares : Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Labor --  Sugar, Shipping, and Cityscapes : Mapping Systems in Thomas Moran's Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey --  Managing Visions of Industry : The Managerial Eye --  Laziness and Civilization : Picturing Sites of Social Control --  Conclusion : Twentieth-Century Echoes. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781613763827 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>National characteristics, American, in art.<br/>Technology in art.<br/>Industries in art.<br/>Art and society--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Art and technology--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Art and industry--History--United States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N72  / .W675 2015