PICTURESQUE AMERICA

Windmill, opposite Detroit (page 545)







Open Volume 1 or 2 of PICTURESQUE AMERICA and take a pictorial-text tour of our country through their more than 700 pages.

These volumes are subtitled The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, canons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country with illustrations on Steel and Wood, by Eminent American Artists. They were published in New York by D. Appleton & Co. in 1872 and were edited by William Cullen Bryant.

Mr. Bryant wrote in the Preface: “It is the design of this publication entitled “PICTURESQUE AMERICA” to present full descriptions and elaborate pictorial delineations of the scenery characteristic of all the different parts of our country.” Looking through both volumes here in the Bullis Room convinced us that the descriptions truly are full and the pictorial delineations, elaborate.

These volumes are a "must see." We're hoping you'll stop by the next time you're in the library and take their tour.

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