Prairie Fires & Paper Moons: Photographic Postcards from the First Two Decades of the 20th Century
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Divided by content into portraits, At Home and At Play, At Work, At War, Outside the Law, Local Scenes and Events and Gala Occasions. Lovely survey of vernacular imagery from the U.S. in the first two... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0879234520
ISBN13:9780879234522
Release Date:August 1981
Publisher:David R. Godine Publisher
Length:191 Pages
Weight:1.42 lbs.
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Simpler Times
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Tornados, prairie fires and moonshiners balance civic pride, classrooms and enlistment portraits in this touching photographic account of life in a much slower time. This collection of postcard images records events of 1900-1920 in America; faithfully collected by postcard archivists Hal Morgan and Andreas Brown. These are images from the outposts of rural life, small runs of unique events that offer the past with a remarkable immediacy. The images dominate, a 10-page introduction is supplemented by explanatory captions. This book will "transfix anyone with an interest in American history, postcards or photography."
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