미스 아메리카. The Book of Miss America; pen and camera sketches of the American girl, by Alexander Black

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미국의 미인대회를 백년전에 카메라스케치로 그리고 펜으로 그림을 넣어서 설명하고 책으로 출간함.


MISS AMERICA
PEN AND CAMERA SKETCHES
OF THE AMERICAN GIRL
BY
ALEXANDER BLACK
Author of “Miss Jerry,” etc.
WITH DESIGNS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC
ILLUSTRATIONS
BY THE AUTHOR
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
NEW YORK: M DCCC XC VIII
Copyright, 1898, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
All rights reserved
University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

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CONTENTS
I. THE AMERICAN TYPE Page？1

II. THE TWIG 23

III. A CENTURY’S RUN 47

IV. STITCHES AND LINKS 75

V. “WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOCIETY” 95

VI. LACE AND DESTINY 121

VII. CHANCE AND CHOICE 143

VIII. THE NEW OLD MAID 165

IX. “AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED” 187

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미국의 미인대회를 백년전에 카메라스케치로 그리고 펜으로 그림을 넣어서 설명하고 책으로 출간함.


MISS AMERICA
PEN AND CAMERA SKETCHES
OF THE AMERICAN GIRL
BY
ALEXANDER BLACK
Author of “Miss Jerry,” etc.
WITH DESIGNS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC
ILLUSTRATIONS
BY THE AUTHOR
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
NEW YORK: M DCCC XC VIII
Copyright, 1898, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
All rights reserved
University Press:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

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It will be suspected, perhaps, that in saying “sketches,” I have wished to escape some of the responsibility which might have been incurred by a more formal approach to a momentous theme, though the entire truth of the description should carry its own justification. And if the term be permitted in describing the text, it has equal appropriateness in describing the pictures; for the photograph seldom can be more than a sketch, and must be content with the limitations as well as with the privileges of the sketch. The feminine eye will discern unaided by data the chronological range of my pictures. To other eyes, possibly, I should explain that the portraits represent a period of six or seven years, and that those in conventional dress are supplemented by various costume sketches with the camera recalling eras in which there was no photography. What I have said of the American type in the first chapter will explain my own difficulty in expressing the American type by the aid of the lens, a difficulty which has not been diminished by the privilege of wide travel. If I have not revealed the geographical identity of any of the types reflected here, the reservation may, I hope, seem to be as fully justified as certain other reservations which the American girl herself so frequently chooses to hold.
I often have wished that it were easier to substitute for “American” some name which should more specifically indicate the United States. It is the United States girl I am talking about; it is the United States spirit which I have sought to discover, and not the spirit of the wider America of which the foreigner, and even the British foreigner, so frequently, and so reasonably, seems to be thinking when he uses the name “American.” Now that Miss America for the first time has seen her soldier brothers go abroad to fight and to conquer, it may be that in one way or another there will be a further modification of the term, in which direction it would be difficult to say at this hour.
Because this is an apology and not a mere preface, I may be permitted, I hope, to express to the American girls in various States of the Union, from Boston to San Antonio, who have sat before my camera, my regret that I should have translated them so inadequately. It would, indeed, be hard to do justice to the American girl, and one well might hesitate to describe, or even to discuss her, were not her always gracious generosity so safely to be looked for.
A. B.

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저자(글) Alexander Black

Alexander Black 미국 저술가. MISS AMERICAPEN AND CAMERA SKETCHESOF THE AMERICAN GIRLBYALEXANDER BLACKAuthor of “Miss Jerry,” etc.WITH DESIGNS AND PHOTOGRAPHICILLUSTRATIONSBY THE AUTHORCHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONSNEW YORK: M DCCC XC VIIICopyright, 1898, byCHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONSAll rights reservedUniversity Press:JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.