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  Edinburgh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also a contributing factor was the later neoclassical architecture, particularly that of William Henry Playfair, and the National Monument.
Multi-story dwellings were the norm from the 1500s onwards.
The national Church of Scotland is numerically the largest denomination in Edinburgh; notable historic church buildings in the city centre include St Giles' Cathedral, Greyfriars Kirk, Canongate Kirk and St Andrew's and St George's Church.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edinburgh   (5423 words)

  
 1998 Resources, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner -- American Memory offer over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures.
Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 -- American Memory gathers 14,000 photographs of the architectural and social life of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential, and government buildings, as well as street scenes and views of neighborhoods.
Antwerp in the Early 1500s tours seven paintings from an era when Antwerp was the mercantile center of Europe.
wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov /cfapps/free/displaydate.cfm?yr=1998   (12701 words)

  
 UNLV Libraries: Find Articles and More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Citations to articles and books on archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, landscape architecture, film, fine arts, folk arts, graphic arts, industrial design, and photography, from over 200 sources.
Databases compiled by the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language gather together over 2100 texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing from the 16th to the 19th century.
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture.
www.library.nevada.edu /search/eralpha.php   (10739 words)

  
 NYPL, Databases at the Science, Industry and Business Library
Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library dating from the 1500s.
ArtSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization that develops, stores and distributes electronically digital images and related scholarly materials for the study of art, architecture, and other fields in the humanities.
Indexes articles on architecture in its broadest sense, including archaeology, decorative arts, interior design, furniture, landscape architecture, and city planning from 1930's to present.
www.nypl.org /databases/sibldb.cfm   (8443 words)

  
 Americans.net - Immigration Information
They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life in California Chinatown in San Francisco receives special treatment as the oldest and largest community of Chinese in the United States.
This article summarizes Filipino-American history from the 1500s to the 1990s.
The author is Joann Natalia Aquino, a freelance professional writer/ journalist, and a Legislative Liaison working on public policy development and legislative affairs for the Governors Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs for the State of Washington.
www.americans.net /Immigration.htm   (4704 words)

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