Postcard From The Past

Author: Tom Jackson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008220549
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
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.

Postcards from the Past

Author: Marcia Willett
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466846518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
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?

A History of Postcards

Author: Martin Willoughby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description

Clyde

Author: Tiffany Willey Middleton
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439661987
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
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.

Key West and the Florida Keys

Author: Lynn M. Homan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738542966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
This collection of postcards captures a trip along that magical ribbon of road from the Florida mainland to the "Southernmost City" of Key West and makes for an unforgettable journey.

Hollywood in Vintage Postcards

Author: Rod Kennedy
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN: 9781586851453
Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In those days the public wanted us to live like kings and queens. So we did . . . and why not? --Gloria Swanson

Wish You Were Here: Arkansas Postcard Past 1900-1925 (p)

Author:
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610754668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
The 431 examples of picture postcards offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Arkansans during the early part of the twentieth century.

Madison

Author: David Sakrison
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738577289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description

Bisbee

Author: Annie Graeme Larkin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738599964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Visually, the Bisbee of today remains a community frozen in time, with Main Street retaining its character from 1910. The discovery of copper deposits in the Mule Mountains brought forth a wealth that enabled a substantial community. Profitable mining ventures and a need for labor drew thousands of miners from around the world to work in Bisbee. These individuals added a distinct flavor to the area. Like countless other Western mining camps, Bisbee evolved from a rough frontier community surviving disastrous fires and floods into a town with a substantial population and solid foundation. Bisbee's seemingly inexhaustible mineral wealth resulted in the community becoming a center of economic and political power in an emerging territory on its way to statehood. It was Arizona's greatest copper camp.

Postcards

Author: Lydia Pyne
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
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.