Author : Philip Jamison
Publisher : Vestal, NY : Vestal Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780911572896
No American history buff should be without this book, as it ties together the sights and scenes and places associated with turn-of-the-century Philadelphia.
Author : George Miller
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Illustrated with eighty vintage city postcards made between the turn of the twentieth century and through the 1970's (with the emphasis on the first four decades), historical geographer, John A Jakle turns his attention to early-twentieth-century nocturnal views of America's cities and to the role of the picture postcard in popular culture. 'Postcard images', the author writes, offered important visual 'fixes' -- mental templates for visualising cities -- the vista of a downtown street at night, or a bird's eye view of a vividly lit downtown, or the dramatic lighting of monuments and other architectural landmarks. As a result, the popularity and proliferation of the penny postcard influenced how Americans thought about cities as landscape displays.
Author : Aaron V. Wunsch
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1616895624
"If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey "solidity and immensity" in an age of deep public skepticism. They now stand vacant and decaying, a "blight" in the eyes of city planners and a beacon to urban explorers. The first book on the buildings and machines that made possible the electrification of the United States, Palazzos of Power offers a visual and analytical exploration of architecture, technology, place, loss, and reuse. With a foreword by David Nye, this collection of Joseph Elliott's beautiful large-format photographs reveal the urban landscape, monumental spaces, giant machinery, and intricate controls that made up the central station. Aaron Wunsch's essay provides historical context on the social and political climate.
Author : Len Fulton
Publisher :
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Books
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN :
Includes section "Book reviews and Book notices.".
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Authorship
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Gifford
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0786478179
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.
Author : International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
Publisher :
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 1982
Category : George Eastman House
ISBN :
Author : Robert Bogdan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780815608516
The Real Photo Postcard Guide is an informative, comprehensive, and practical treatment of this wildly popular American phenomenon that dominated the United States photographic market during the first third of the twentieth century. Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh draw on extensive research and observation to address all aspects of the photo postcard from its history, origin, and cultural significance to practical matters like dating, purchasing, condition, and preservation. Illustrated with over 350 exceptional photo postcards taken from archives and private collections across the country, the scope of the Real Photo Postcard Guide spans technical considerations of production, characteristics of superior images, collecting categories, and methods of research for dating photo postcards and investigating their photographers. In a broader sense, the authors show how "real photo postcards" document the social history of America. From family outings and workplace awards to lynchings and natural disasters, every image captures a moment of American cultural history from the society that generated them. Bogdan and Weseloh’s book provides an admirable integration of informative text and compelling photographic illustrations. Collectors, archivists, photographers, photo historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in the visual documentation of America will find the Real Photo Postcard Guide indispensable.
