Learning Vicariously: Tourism, Orientalism and the Making of an Architectural Photography Collection of Egypt

Andrew Dickson White, the first president of Cornell University in the United States, referred to architecture as his 'pet extravagance.' Leveraging his influential position as president, White was instrumental in the establishment of the architecture department in 1871. One of his notewor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elvan Cobb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-01-01
Series:Architectural Histories
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Online Access:http://journal.eahn.org/articles/199