Real Photo Postcard Guide

Real Photo Postcard Guide
Author: Robert Bogdan
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006-09-21
Genre: 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.

Shopping as Comedy: A Victorian Scrapbook

Shopping as Comedy: A Victorian Scrapbook
Author: Alexis Easley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2024-05-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040021867

This volume is a critical edition of a Victorian scrapbook, composed of cuttings from advertising images from the 1880's. These images are arranged in hand-drawn domestic spaces and embellished with watercolour details. At the foot of each page is a handwritten running text, written by an unknown Victorian author, that provides a narrative to explain the accompanying images. The album also includes four original short stories, interspersed by twenty-three vignettes, which, like advertisements in a magazine, echo and reinforce themes in the surrounding content. The album highlights issues of concern to women at the fin de siècle: romance, marriage, shopping, and house decoration. The satirical commentary on late Victorian shopping and commodity culture provides a fascinating insight into the interests and responses of consumers during this period. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of literary and advertising history.

A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood

A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood
Author: Tiffany R. Isselhardt
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 272
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1648894283

How do scholars research and interpret marginalized populations, especially those that are seldom recognized as marginalized or whose sources are believed to be rare? Combining intersectional feminism and public history methodologies, ‘A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood’ reflects on how girlhood is found, researched, and interpreted in museums, archives, and historic sites. Defining “girl” as “self-identifying females under the age of 21,” ‘A Girl Can Do’ lays the groundwork for understanding girlhood, its constructs, and its marginalization while providing faculty, students, and working professionals with ten case studies on researching and working with girlhood. Contributors include archaeologists, archivists, curators, educators, and historians who demonstrate how adding a girl studies lens fosters greater inclusivity and diversity in our work. Whether studying spatial techniques of marginalization in colonial Peru, the daybooks as records of girlhood in late-nineteenth century Sweden, or collaborating with self-identifying fangirls to produce a pop-up exhibition, the contributors demonstrate the variety of sources and methods that can be used to interpret this oft-overlooked population. Throughout, ‘A Girl Can Do’ petitions for collaborative and creative thinking in how we can reframe and reinterpret our sources – both traditional and overlooked – to shed new light on how girls have contributed to, and provide frames of reference for, human history and culture.

Spiritual Moderns

Spiritual Moderns
Author: Erika Doss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2023-05-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226823474

Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images, beliefs, and practices to create a distinctive style of American art. Spiritual Moderns centers on four American artists who were both modern and religious. Joseph Cornell, who showed with the Surrealists, was a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Mark Tobey created pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism and was a follower of the Bahá’í Faith. Agnes Pelton was a Symbolist painter who embraced metaphysical movements including New Thought, Theosophy, and Agni Yoga. And Warhol, a leading figure in Pop art, was a lifelong Catholic. Working with biographical materials, social history, affect theory, and the tools of art history, Doss traces the linked subjects of art and religion and proposes a revised interpretation of American modernism.

Vintage Old Postcards Envelope Paper Scrapbook Elements Ephemera Embellishments

Vintage Old Postcards Envelope Paper Scrapbook Elements Ephemera Embellishments
Author: Beautiful Prints Media
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020-01-27
Genre:
ISBN:

Old Vintage Postcards scrapbooking Paper Poster Element Paper Sheets Over 70 double sided beautiful timeless antique art for Scrapbooking and Junk Journals Images This Scrapbooking kit in a book is useful for creating your own sketchbooks - Ephemera elements for decoupage, journaling, notebooks, altered art journal pages, card making, gift tags, or scrapbooks. It has double designs on one side for easy crafting. Ideal for the crafter to collect cut out and place in photo collages or photo frames to create an art wall or develop scrap book albums. There are over 70 beautiful antique postcard images collection pieces to cut out, copy, scan, transfer, or resize. They can be used freely for scrapbooking, junk journaling, mixed media collages and other paper craft projects. Product details Different designs Colored paper designs 100 gsm paper Ideal for Décor, junk journaling, mixed media, ephemera, tags, collage art

Woolfian Boundaries

Woolfian Boundaries
Author: Anna Burrells
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2023-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 163804127X

Woolfian Boundaries explores Woolf’s work from perspectives “beyond the boundary” of her own positions and attitudes, taking her coolness toward the provinces and “prejudice” against the regional novel (Letters 6: 381) as the starting point for considering her writing in the light of its own “limits,” self-declared and otherwise. Chapter topics range from Woolf’s connections with the “Birmingham School” of novelists in the 1930s to her interests in environmentalism, portraiture, photography, and the media, and her endlessly fascinating relationship with the writings of her contemporaries and predecessors.