Philadelphia In Picture Postcards 1900 1930
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Author | : Philip Jamison |
Publisher | : Vestal, NY : Vestal Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Robert F. Looney |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Philadelphia (Pa.) |
ISBN | : 9780486234212 |
Author | : Robert F. Looney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Author | : Erin L. VanFossen |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738532882 |
In 1772, Native Americans granted land in the Tuscarawas Valley to Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, and he established the Christian community of Schoenbrunn Village, which remained until 1777 when members were forced to relocate. Then in late 1804, John Knisely, his family, and other pioneers braved the western frontier and settled on the Tuscarawas River near the Schoenbrunn Village site. On October 23, 1804, John Knisely founded the town of New Philadelphia. He was a great philanthropist, donating land to the city for future public buildings, guaranteeing its selection as the Tuscarawas County Seat. In Schoenbrunn Village, which has been partially excavated and rebuilt as a historic site in New Philadelphia, missionaries lived in harmony with Native Americans, and so it seems fitting that New Philadelphia, through the influence of John Knisely's generosity, has maintained its image as the new "city of brotherly love." Two hundred years later, the city strives to keep Knisely's dream alive with its generous allocation of resources and commitment to those in need.
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Release | : 2017-08 |
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ISBN | : 9780692937624 |
Author | : John A. Jakle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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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 | : Philadelphia |
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Genre | : Photographs |
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Author | : Lynn M. Homan |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 1999-09-23 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439627134 |
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 Americas history. This fascinating new history of Philadelphia at the turn of the century showcases more than two hundred of the best postcards available.
Author | : Daniel Gifford |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : 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.