Perak Postcards 1890s-1940s

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Publisher : Areca Books
ISBN 13 : 9789675719011
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Perak Postcards 1890s-1940s by : Abdur-Razzaq Lubis

Download or read book Perak Postcards 1890s-1940s written by Abdur-Razzaq Lubis and published by Areca Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jersey City in Vintage Postcards

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738549545
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (495 download)

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Book Synopsis Jersey City in Vintage Postcards by : Randall Gabrielan

Download or read book Jersey City in Vintage Postcards written by Randall Gabrielan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jersey City in Vintage Postcards features selected postcard images, some actual photographs, that depict Jersey Cityas early-twentieth-century rise as one of the Northeastas great urban areas. Many of the views seen here remained intact into the 1940s and 1950s. More than two hundred thirty postcards and photographs, organized geographically, also suggest an evolving Jersey City, while well researched captions describe the changing cityscape.

Postcards

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Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcards by : David Prochaska

Download or read book Postcards written by David Prochaska and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and race. Discusses issues concerning the concrete practices of production, consumption, collection and appropriation.

Postcards from Alaska

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ISBN 13 : 9780936425986
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (259 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcards from Alaska by : Robert E. King

Download or read book Postcards from Alaska written by Robert E. King and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 400 mistoric Alaska postcards from the 1890s through the opening of the Alaska Highway to civilians in the late 1940s tells the story of Alaska's earliest postcards and also includes a special dating guide to help collectors and hobbiests estimate the age of a given card.

Muncie, Indiana, in Vintage Postcards

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738501116
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Muncie, Indiana, in Vintage Postcards by : Milton A. Masing

Download or read book Muncie, Indiana, in Vintage Postcards written by Milton A. Masing and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in America's history. This fascinating new history of Muncie, Indiana, showcases more than two hundred of the best vintage postcards available.

Postcards in the Library

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317939239
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcards in the Library by : Norman D Stevens

Download or read book Postcards in the Library written by Norman D Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards, individually and collectively, contain a great deal of information that can be of real value to students and researchers. Postcards in the Library gives compelling reasons why libraries should take a far more active and serious interest in establishing and maintaining postcard collections and in encouraging the use of these collections. It explains the nature and accessibility of existing postcard collections; techniques for acquiring, arranging, preserving, and handling collections; and ways to make researchers and patrons aware of these collections. Postcards in the Library asserts that, in most cases, existing postcard collections are a vastly underutilized scholarly resource. Editor Norman D. Stevens urges librarians to help change this since postcards, as items for mass consumption and often with no apparent conscious literary or social purpose, are a true reflection of the society in which they were produced. Stevens claims that messages written on postcards may also reveal a great deal about individual and/or societal attitudes and ideas. Chapters in Postcards in the Library are written by librarians who manage postcard collections, postcard collectors, and researchers. Some of the authors have undertaken major research projects that demonstrate the ways in which postcards can be used in research, and that have begun to establish a standard methodology for the analysis of postcards. They write about: major postcard collections, including the Institute of Deltiology and the Curt Teich Postcard Archives the use of postcards for scholarly research postcard conservation and preservation, arrangement and organization, and importance and value Postcards in the Library describes the postcard collections in a variety of libraries of different kinds and sizes and indicates very real ways in which the effective use of postcard collections can result in and contribute to substantive, scholarly publications. It also offers advice and suggestions on the myriad issues that libraries face in handling these ephemeral fragments of popular culture. Special collections librarians, postcard collectors, postcard dealers, and historical societies will find the information in Postcards in the Library refreshing and practical. Libraries with established postcard collections or those thinking about developing postcard collections will use it as a valuable planning tool and start-to-finish guide.

Reading in Vintage Postcards

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738504797
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading in Vintage Postcards by : Charles Jesse Adams

Download or read book Reading in Vintage Postcards written by Charles Jesse Adams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century, a transportation industry developed in Reading that put the city on the map--and on the Monopoly board--forever. Founded in 1748 by William Penn's sons Thomas and Richard, Reading experienced rapid growth throughout the nineteenth century as the Reading Railroad (the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad) breathed steam into the city's industry. As the powerful railroads faded later, so did the city's economy. In recent years, Reading has become known as the birthplace and capital of factory outlet shopping and the hub of newborn manufacturing, financial, and agricultural enterprises.

The Iowa State Fair in Vintage Postcards

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738540375
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Iowa State Fair in Vintage Postcards by : Ron Playle

Download or read book The Iowa State Fair in Vintage Postcards written by Ron Playle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 190 vintage postcards provide glimpses of the historic fair from the 1890s through the mid-1950s. The quintessential event has an attendance topping 1 million each year.

Oak Park in Vintage Postcards

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738531601
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Book Synopsis Oak Park in Vintage Postcards by : Douglas Deuchler

Download or read book Oak Park in Vintage Postcards written by Douglas Deuchler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it was first settled in the 1830s, Oak Park did not become an independent municipality until it split from Cicero Township in 1902. No longer a rustic small town, the village soon became a population magnet, attracting ever-larger numbers of prosperous, progressive people to settle in what many soon referred to as "the finest of the streetcar suburbs." Coincidentally, use of the penny picture postcard had approached a national mania during this era. Thus from the earliest years of the 20th century, the rapid growth and development of Oak Park was well documented, even celebrated, with a vast and varied array of outstanding postcard images.

Postcards from the Río Bravo Border

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Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292752814
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcards from the Río Bravo Border by : Daniel D. Arreola

Download or read book Postcards from the Río Bravo Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history in postcards of Mexican tourist towns in the first half of the twentieth century, with nearly two hundred illustrations. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as tourist destinations—in some cases by luring Americans who wanted to escape Prohibition—and as emerging cities. Commercial photographers produced thousands of images of their streets, plazas, historic architecture, and tourist attractions, which were reproduced as photo postcards. Daniel Arreola has amassed one of the largest collections of these border town postcards, and in this book he uses this amazing visual archive to offer a new way of understanding how the border towns grew and transformed themselves in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as how they were pictured to attract American tourists. Postcards from the Río Bravo Border presents nearly two hundred images of five towns on the lower Río Bravo: Matamoros, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, and Villa Acuña. Using multiple images of sites within each city, Arreola tracks changes both within the cities as places and in the ways in which they’ve been pictured for tourist consumption. He also shows how postcard images, when systematically and chronologically arranged, can tell us a great deal about how Mexican border towns have been viewed over time. This innovative visual approach demonstrates that historical imagery, no less than text or maps, can be assembled to tell a fascinating geographical story. “This is masterful cultural geography with rich visual materials, delivered in a unique and compelling fashion.” —Journal of Latin American Geography

Revitalizing History

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Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648892019
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Book Synopsis Revitalizing History by : Paul E. Bolin

Download or read book Revitalizing History written by Paul E. Bolin and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical inquiry forms the foundation for much research undertaken in art education. While traversing paths of historical investigation in this field we may discover undocumented moments and overlooked or hidden individuals, as well as encounter challenging ideas in need of exploration and critique. In doing so, history is approached from multiple and, at times, vitally diverse perspectives. Our hope is that the conversations generated through this text will continue to strengthen and encourage more interest in histories of art education, but also more sophisticated and innovative approaches to historical research in this field. The overarching objective of the text is to recognize the historical role that many overlooked individuals—particularly African Americans and women—have played in the field of art education, and acknowledge the importance of history and historical research in this digital age. This text opens up possibilities of faculty collaborations across programs interested in history and historical research on a local, national, and international level. By assembling the work of various scholars from across the United States, this text is intended to elicit rich conversations about history that would be otherwise beyond what is provided in general art education textbooks.

Framing Nature

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496238362
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Framing Nature by : Yolonda Youngs

Download or read book Framing Nature written by Yolonda Youngs and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is an internationally known feature of the North American landscape, attracting more than five million visitors each year. A deep cultural, visual, and social history has shaped the Grand Canyon’s environment into one of America’s most significant representations of nature. Yet the canyon is more than a vacation destination, a movie backdrop, or a scenic viewpoint; it is a real place as well as an abstraction easily summoned in the minds of Americans. The Grand Canyon, or the idea of it, is woven into the fabric of American cultural identity and serves as a cultural reference point—an icon. In Framing Nature Yolonda Youngs traces the idea of the Grand Canyon as an icon and the ways people came to know it through popular imagery and visual media. She analyzes and interprets more than fourteen hundred visual artifacts, including postcards, maps, magazine illustrations, and photographs of the Grand Canyon, supplemented with the words and ideas of writers, artists, explorers, and other media makers from 1869 to 2022. Youngs considers the manipulation and commodification of visual representations and shifting ideas, values, and meanings of nature, exploring the interplay between humans and their environments and how visual representations shape popular ideas and meanings about national parks and the American West. Framing Nature provides a novel interpretation of how places, especially national parks, are transformed into national and environmental symbols.

Fort Lauderdale in Vintage Postcards

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143961251X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Fort Lauderdale in Vintage Postcards by : Susan Gillis

Download or read book Fort Lauderdale in Vintage Postcards written by Susan Gillis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is a well-known tourist destination whose very name evokes the image of a postcard. What is today one of Florida's largest cities was not always prized for its beautiful beaches and tropical climate. In the early 20th century, it was hailed as the "Gateway to the Everglades" and a "vegetable shipping capital." By the 1920s, Fort Lauderdale found itself at the very center of the phenomenal Florida land boom. Development and tourism became driving forces for the new economy-and there has been no looking back.

Historic Wilson in Vintage Postcards

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439612358
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Historic Wilson in Vintage Postcards by : J. Robert Boykin III

Download or read book Historic Wilson in Vintage Postcards written by J. Robert Boykin III and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson, North Carolina was formed in 1849 when the villages of Toisnot and Hickory Grove merged together. Named for Mexican War hero Gen. Louis D. Wilson, the new town came to be known for agriculture and education. The Wilson of today holds fast to its roots, offering antique shops laden with treasures from all walks of life and nationally recognized historic districts brimming with remarkable structures, significant styles of architecture, and numerous locations to taste the famed Eastern North Carolina style of barbecue. Historic Wilson in Vintage Postcards is a priceless collection of images that depict, among other views, the Wilson Depot from the late 1800s, local businesses, street scenes, churches, cotton and tobacco, and residential areas. The volume also affords readers postcards of Nash Street when it was considered "one of the most beautiful streets in America," tobacco scenes when Wilson was "the world's largest tobacco market," and the infamous 1911 trial of the Lewis West gang.

Minneapolis and St. Paul in Vintage Postcards

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738519821
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (198 download)

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Book Synopsis Minneapolis and St. Paul in Vintage Postcards by : Christopher S. Clay

Download or read book Minneapolis and St. Paul in Vintage Postcards written by Christopher S. Clay and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first half of the 20th century, communication by postcard was an inexpensive and popular means of exchanging travel stories, news, and gossip across the United States. The postcard, for just a few cents, connected friends and loved-ones separated by hundreds of miles. Today, we treasure these little correspondences of yesteryear as unique glimpses into the long-lost places of a long-gone era. Minneapolis and St. Paul in Vintage Postcards captures this historic era of Minnesota's "twin cities" through 200 classic postcard images. Inside will be found views of St. Paul's Hotel Ryan, providing a rare glimpse into a once-famous landmark that no longer stands. A picture of a solitary 1911 automobile traveling along Minneapolis' popular Lake Calhoun Drive will remind us of how one may have gone to-and-fro at the start of the last century. And the scene of a well-dressed Minnesota family at Minnehaha Falls shows us that this site was as popular among tourists in 1908, when the image was taken, as it is today.

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

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Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473855438
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Book Synopsis Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings by : Ruth Alexandra Symes

Download or read book Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings written by Ruth Alexandra Symes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialization, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words.

Postcard Views of Early Singapore

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Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789811427060
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcard Views of Early Singapore by : Naoko Shimazu

Download or read book Postcard Views of Early Singapore written by Naoko Shimazu and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This evocative collection of more than 200 picture postcards offers a fascinating insight into Singaporean society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.