Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918 write by George Miller. This book was released on 1976. Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918
Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918 write by Dorothy B. Ryan. This book was released on 1982. Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thorough study of the early development of the postcard in America reveals its importance as a source of historical data and as a unique form of folk art
American Holiday Postcards, 1905-1915
American Holiday Postcards, 1905-1915 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Holiday Postcards, 1905-1915 write by Daniel Gifford. This book was released on 2013-09-05. American Holiday Postcards, 1905-1915 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture. Millions of such postcards circulated among networks of community and kin as part of a larger American postcard craze. However, their uses and meanings were far from universal. This book argues that holiday postcards circulated primarily among rural and small town, Northern, white women with Anglo-Saxon and Germanic heritages. Through analysis of a broad range of sources, Daniel Gifford recreates the history of postcards to account for these specific audiences, and reconsiders the postcard phenomenon as an image-based conversation among exclusive groups of Americans. A variety of narratives are thus revealed: the debates generated by the Country Life Movement; the empowering manifestations of the New Woman; the civic privileges of whiteness; and the role of emerging technologies. From Santa Claus to Easter bunnies, flag-waving turkeys to gun-toting cupids, holiday postcards at first seem to be amusing expressions of a halcyon past. Yet with knowledge of audience and historical conflicts, this book demonstrates how the postcard images reveal deep divides at the height of the Progressive Era.
A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War
A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War write by Frank Jacob. This book was released on 2019-03-31. A Postcard View of Hell: One Doughboy’s Souvenir Album of the First World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we look carefully, postcards offer valuable insights into the time periods in which they were created and the mentalities of those who bought or sent them. Frank Marhefka, while serving in the U.S. Army Motor Transportation Corps during the First World War, amassed a collection of more than 150 postcards and photographs while in France, and bound them into a souvenir album. Marhefka’s collection provides a diverse and vivid look into a period of history that – in many soldiers’ accounts – is not usually visualized with all its cruelties. Emphasizing the pictorial turn of the Great War, this album offers personal insight into a conflict that caused so much death and destruction. The book begins with an introduction providing a history of postcards and their extensive use by soldiers during the Great War. Then, after a biography of Marhefka, his postcard collection is presented in its entirety. Accompanying the images are brief texts that place them into historical context, as well as suggestions for further reading. As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who have an interest in military history and popular culture.
Postcard America
Postcard America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcard America write by Jeffrey L. Meikle. This book was released on 2016-01-20. Postcard America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This illustrated history of the colorized linen postcards of the 1930s and ’40s is “an incredible tour . . . A veritable treasure trove of American culture” (Crave Online). From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a “linen” card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock embossed with a linen-like texture, linen postcards celebrated the American scene with views of majestic landscapes, modern cityscapes, roadside attractions, and other notable features. These colorful images portrayed the United States as shimmering with promise, quite unlike the black-and-white worlds of documentary photography or Life magazine. Linen postcards were enormously popular, with close to a billion printed and sold. Postcard America offers the first comprehensive study of these cards and their cultural significance. Drawing on the production files of Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, the originator of linen postcards, Jeffrey L. Meikle reveals how photographic views were transformed into colorized postcard images—often by means of manipulation—adding and deleting details or collaging bits and pieces from several photos. He presents two extensive portfolios of postcards—landscapes and cityscapes—that comprise a representative iconography of linen postcard views. For each image, Meikle explains the postcard’s subject, describes aspects of its production, and places it in social and cultural contexts. In the concluding chapter, he shifts from historical interpretation to a contemporary viewpoint, considering nostalgia as a motive for collectors and others who are fascinated today by these striking images.
