Galleries

The galleries are a means of gaining additional information and insight into specific aspects of the PBO project. They reflect specific eras, geographic locations, single authors, titles, publishers, designers, as well as specific physical mediums. They are useful not only in learning more about the PBO project itself and the types of materials within the PBO virtual collection, but also in learning about aspects of 19th- and early 20th-c. history, life, and culture. The galleries and accompanying scholarly material can be incorporated in lesson plans and can serve as a springboard or inspiration for further research in a specific area. If you have a suggestion about a gallery you would like to see, please contact us. Please visit the Galleries page often, as we will be adding more materials on a regular basis. Please also visit our Artistic Styles and Movements Galleries.

Abraham Lincoln, Civil War President	The Artistic Collaboration between Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) & Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904)	Booker T. Washington: Author, Educator, Advocate
Confederate Imprints: Publishing in the Civil War South	Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part I: Thomas Nelson Page's Literature of the "Lost Cause"	Genesis & Apocalypse of the "Old South" Myth: Two Virginia Writers at the Turn of the Century; Part II: Ellen Glasgow' s Feminist Approach to the "Old South"
From Domestic Goddesses to Suffragists: The Story of Women Told on Bookbindings, 1820-1920	Founded in Handcraft: The Roots of Publishers' Bindings	Gallery of Book-Cloth Grain Patterns
Heroes of the "Lost Cause"	Indians, the Frontier, and the West in American Bookbindings	Lafcadio Hearn: 19th-Century World Citizen
Louisa May Alcott: Little Woman, Big Pen	"Moonlight and Magnolias": History and Literature in the Big Easy	"The Most Written About War in History": The Civil War in Fact and Fiction
Black and White: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Race in Post-Civil War Literature	Progress & Invention: Representations of the Industrial Revolution in America as Reflected in Bookbindings	Publishers' Bindings & Their Designers: Making Their Marks
Publishers' Bindings by Decade: Galleries and Essays	Publishers' Bindings from the Max Kade Institute	Publishers' Bindings from the Wade Hall Collection
Silver & Gold: The Art of Metal Stamping	Son of a Comet, Star of the West: The Life and Literature of “Mark Twain”	Southern Writers and Local Color: A Regional Twist on a National Trend
True Tales of Bondage and Freedom: Nineteenth Century Slave Narratives	Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A 19th-Century Bestseller	Understanding Visual Literacy through Publishers' Bindings Online