Entries Tagged as 'History'

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Hillside Letters in the Western Landscape

Landscape:
Giant capital letters adorn hillsides near many cities and towns in the American West. These letters, typically constructed of whitewashed or painted stones or of concrete, are cultural signatures. They serve as conspicuous symbols of community and institutional identity, and they represent an idea, perhaps traceable to a single point of origin, that diffused quickly […]

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982

Library of Congress:
The Buckaroos in Paradise Collection presents documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. The documentation was largely the work of the Paradise Valley Folklife Project (1978-1982), a research initiative conducted by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. This collection presents 41 motion pictures […]