Author : Tom Jackson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0008220549
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards.
Author : Marcia Willett
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466846518
Beloved novelist Marcia Willett continues to captivate readers with her inspiring novels about family, friendship, and love. In Postcards from the Past Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. With family and friends nearby, and their living arrangements free and easy, they seem as contented as they can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years?
Author : Martin Willoughby
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : Tiffany Willey Middleton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1439661987
Clyde is a community located in northwest Ohio, less than one hour southeast of Toledo, with a population of approximately 6,500 people. In many ways, Clyde is a famous small town--it has been launched into the national spotlight numerous times during its 150-year history. Clyde was the home of Civil War hero James B. McPherson, political cartoonist James Albert Wales, author Sherwood Anderson, and World War II hero Rodger Young. The images in this volume provide windows into Clyde's storied history and offer glimpses of the everyday moments shared by its citizens.
Author : Dorothy W. Jerse
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738507477
For most of the 20th century, the "Crossroads of America" was literally at the intersection of U.S. 41 and the National Road, right at the corner of Seventh Street and Wabash Avenue in downtown Terre Haute, Indiana. Although the crossroads has shifted, Vigo County is still a major transportation center perched on the high side of the Wabash River, made famous by songwriter Paul Dresser. Captured here in over 200 vintage images is the history of Terre Haute and Vigo County, chronicling the area's earliest days all the way through to World War One. Offering a unique historical account using only postcard images, this new book showcases the people, buildings, neighborhoods, schools and events that shaped the region, including Eugene V. Debs, Chauncey Rose, Collett Park, and the 1913 Tornado and Flood.
Author : Marlin L. Heckman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738508101
Throughout the years, the 76-square-mile island of Santa Catalina has hosted Native-American tribes, European sailors, American tourists, and even the Chicago Cubs. The island has survived both ecologically and culturally, resisting the temptation of becoming a Coney Island of Los Angeles. Through the work of its residents along with chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr., Santa Catalina Island is as beautiful today as it was when it was discovered in 1542.
Author : Lydia Pyne
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1789144841
Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they have been made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. Historically, postcards' innovation and significance was their ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally, postcards are about creating personal connections: links between people, places and beliefs. In this book Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artefacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art and culture. In doing so, she shows us that postcards were the first global social network, and how here, in the twenty-first century, postcards are not yet extinct.
Author : David Prochaska
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
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.
Author : Rod Kennedy
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
ISBN : 9781586851453
In those days the public wanted us to live like kings and queens. So we did . . . and why not? --Gloria Swanson
Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Postcards from
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
A century ago, hereditary rulers governed the great world powers. The royal houses of Europe, Africa, and Asia once ruled continents and the dominions beyond the seas. Today, just ten monarchs still reign in Europe, their powers significantly curbed. Where have all the royals gone? This book presents postcard images of lost emperors, kings and queens, czars and czarinas, princes, grand dukes, dukes, and duchesses. From the Balkans to the Iberian peninsula, these regal portraits hint at the values of another era and capture something of the essence of the long-vanished world of international royalty.
