La Mission Héliographique: Architectural Photography, Collective Memory and the Patrimony of France, 1851

Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination

Volumn , Issue , 2021, Pages 21-54

  Christine Boyer, M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003268260-3     Document Type: Chapter

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