Pennsylvania

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PENNSYLVANIA
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLYDE H.SMITH TEXT
BYCRONAN MINTON
Three hundred miles separate Philadelphia, the nation's most historic city, from Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the world. Between these two urban and cultural poles of Eastern and Western Pennsylvania lies a land of extraordinary beauty, interest, and variety. There are states such as Texas, California, and New York which match Pennsylvania's powerful industry. Other states equal it in fertility. A handful such as Massachusetts and Virginia rival it in history. But no state in America combines industry, fertility, and history to as great a degree as "The Keystone State".
Now, in magnificent color photographs by Clyde H. Smith, Pennsylvania receives the full attention it so richly deserves. From the fertile farmland of Lancaster County, where the famous Old Order Amish still plow their fields with horses and mules, to the rushing white water of the Youghiogheny River, to the Gettysburg and... Tovább

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PENNSYLVANIA
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLYDE H.SMITH TEXT
BYCRONAN MINTON
Three hundred miles separate Philadelphia, the nation's most historic city, from Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the world. Between these two urban and cultural poles of Eastern and Western Pennsylvania lies a land of extraordinary beauty, interest, and variety. There are states such as Texas, California, and New York which match Pennsylvania's powerful industry. Other states equal it in fertility. A handful such as Massachusetts and Virginia rival it in history. But no state in America combines industry, fertility, and history to as great a degree as "The Keystone State".
Now, in magnificent color photographs by Clyde H. Smith, Pennsylvania receives the full attention it so richly deserves. From the fertile farmland of Lancaster County, where the famous Old Order Amish still plow their fields with horses and mules, to the rushing white water of the Youghiogheny River, to the Gettysburg and Brandywine battlefields and Valley Forge, to the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia's Chestnut Street and Independence Hall, to Lake Erie and its unique Presque isle. Smith captures ail of Pennsylvania's beauty during every season of the year.
In an informative text which complements the photographs, Cronan Minton describes Pennsylvania as "the archetypal American state". He traces the state's fascinating history from the days of its founder, William Penn, through to the Revolutionary War and the Westward movement of the pioneers, up to the Industrial Revolution and the development of Pennsylvania's canal and railroad systems, to its present status as one of America's four greatest industrial and urban states. He is as interested in describing the rich collection of preindustrial Americana at the Mercer Museum in Bucks County as he is in the origins of the nation's first superhighway, the Pennsylvania Turnpike (the story begins in the 1880s with such mythical titans of American industry and finance as Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, and William H. Vanderbllt). He discusses Johnstown and Pennsylvania's tragic floods, and he also provides sketches of Bucks County and of the Amlsh way of life.
This is Pennsylvania—a state of classic fieldstone buildings, covered bridges, prosperous barns, and Old World German towns. A thriving city state. Also a great rural state with rugged mountains and wilderness teeming with deer. Above all, this is a dazzling display of Clyde H. Smith at the height of his artistic powers and doing the best work of his life.
jacket Photo: Stone barn on the farm of 87 year old Frank Weiss, of Riegelsville. The unique motif on this fine example of stone masonry in Bucks County, was created for ventilation purposes. Truly an interesting study in craftsmanship. Vissza