The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.
Panoramas, 17871900 Volume 5 American Panoramas, Introduction to
American Panoramas Descriptive Pamphlets John Vanderlyn, Description of the
Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles (1819) John Banvard,
Geographical Panorama of the Mississippi River (1847) Description of Lanes
Panorama of the Hudson River (1848) Charles Gayler, A Description of Lewis
Mammoth Panorama of the Mississippi River (1849) William Wells Brown,
Original Panoramic Views of the Scenes in the Life of an American Slave
(1850) Descriptive and Historical View of Burrs Moving Mirror, of the Lakes,
the Niagara, St. Lawrence, and Saguenay Rivers (1850) John Skirving,
Descriptive of Colonel Fremonts Overland Route to Oregon and California
(1850) Dr. Kanes Arctic Voyage (1857) Description of Bullards Panorama of
New York City (1850s) Descriptive Catalogue of the Cyclorama of the Battles
of Vicksburg (1886) Contextual Materials On the Foreground (1887)
Historiscope Lecture (late nineteenth century) John Stevens, Panorama of the
Indian Massacre of 1862 and the Black Hills (1870s) Albert Norton, Brief
Sketch of the Life of O. A. Bullard (1851) Editorial Notes Index
General Editor: Laurie Garrison, Consulting Editor: Anne Anderson, Volume Editors: Volume 5 Peter West
