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Looking for Mr. Gilbert : the unlikely life of the first African American landscape photographer / John Hanson Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, John Hanson, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gilbert, Robert Alexander, 1870-1942.
- Gilbert, Robert Alexander.
- Brewster, William, 1851-1919--Friends and associates.
- Brewster, William.
- Brewster, William, 1851-1919.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Open Road Distribution, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking for Mr. Gilbert is an account of the quest to uncover the heretofore unknown life of Robert A. Gilbert, an African American serving man who worked for the ornithologist William Brewster. A man of many talents, Gilbert went on to become the first African American landscape photographer.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter One: The African Charioteer
- Chapter Two: Attic Archeology
- Entr'acte
- Chapter Three: Down in the Valley
- Chapter Four: Self-Reliance
- Chapter Five: Rare Birds
- Chapter Six: Negro Paradise
- Chapter Seven: Memento Mori
- Chapter Eight: World Enough and Time
- Chapter Nine: North Country
- Chapter Ten: After They've Gone
- Chapter Eleven: A Journey Through the Memory House
- Chapter Twelve: Gilbert's Ghosts
- Chapter Thirteen: Ain't We Got Fun
- Chapter Fourteen: A Night at the Dingo Bar
- Chapter Fifteen: Gone Are the Days
- Epilogue: The River
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 5, 2017).
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