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Author: Hayward Cirker Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486232874 Category : Buildings Languages : en Pages : 0
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Grand Central Station, Wall Street, Herald Square, Hester Street, Croton Reservoir, The Bowery, Jefferson Market, other historic metropolitan landmarks. A rare chance to see New York as it was between 1868 and 1929.
Author: John A. Jakle Publisher: ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 138
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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.