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Author : Herbert Rolfes
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1555620698
Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Postcards of America
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 146710647X
Author : Herbert Rolfes
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 155562068X
Pages are perforated to create 52 detachable post cards.
Author : Robert W. Bowen,Brenda Young Bowen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738559253
Since the Gold Rush, San Francisco's Chinatown has been a destination for sojourners, immigrants, locals, and tourists. Despite laws restricting Chinese immigration, Chinatown has thrived as a residential and commercial center. Designed for tourists and bearing little resemblance to real Chinese cityscapes, the streets and buildings have nonetheless been extensively documented in picture postcards, as have the residents, particularly from the 1890s to 1930s, the "Golden Age of Postcards." The cards, relatively few of which survive, were kept as visual souvenirs and mementos, or were mailed to family and friends. Book jacket.
Author : Maggie Kate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0486282198
Author : Andrew F. Wood
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738535850
The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair promised a new age of global communication, nationwide superhighways, and suburban living-and it delivered. Crafted by designers such as Walter Dorwin Teague, Norman Bel Geddes, and Raymond Loewy, the twelve-hundred-acre fair in Flushing Meadows sold visitors a streamlined world of consumer goods-teardrop cars and smoking robots, electric dishwashers and nylon stockings-manufactured by companies such as Westinghouse, General Motors, and AT&T. In New York's 1939-1940 World's Fair, insightful narrative accompanies dazzling postcards, advertisements, and illustrations of Democracity, Futurama, the Lagoon of Nations, and the famed Trylon and Perisphere, recalling the promise and optimism of a fair that enchanted forty-five million visitors.
Author : Mark Bussler
Publisher : Cgr Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1592182208
Take a colorful trip back to the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair with more than 130 gorgeous prints, postcards, illustrations, and detailed maps from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Just a few years after the 1906 earthquake nearly destroyed San Francisco, the city rebuilt and hosted more than 18 million people from around the world to celebrate the completion of the greatest engineering project in the history of the modern world; The Panama Canal. This vivid book features: More than 130 restored images from the Panama-Pacific Exposition Softcover and hardcover options Full Size 8 1/2" x 11" pages Contemporary writing based on period guidebooks Rare postcards and contemporary colorful promotional guides Detailed maps of the Exposition Introduction from writer, Mark Bussler Bold retro-styled cover design This original book from writer and world's fair historian Mark Bussler guides readers through the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition with rare, colorful imagery and full-page illustrations of the Fair's grand palaces, courts, and statuary. With the assistance of contemporary maps from guidebooks, readers can get a sense of what it was like to be there by meandering through the Court of the Four Seasons, Avenue of Palms, and Espanade while admiring the Tower of Jewels and Calder's Fountain of Energy. The 1915 World's Fair was unlike anything that people from the time had ever seen before, with breathtaking architecture, electric lighting, and landscapes designed by the world's most renowned artists and architects. Includes: - History of the Panama-Pacific Exposition - San Francisco and California in 1915 - The Tower of Jewels - Column of Progress - South Gardens - Court of the Universe - Avenue of Palms - Festival Hall - Palace of Fine Arts - Palace of Horticulture - View of the Golden Gate (before the bridge!) - Arch of the Rising Sun - Arch of the Setting Sun - Numerous State Buildings - Numerous Foreign Country Buildings - Court of the Four Seasons - Palaces of Manufactures, Liberal Arts, Mines, and more... About the Author: 1915 San Francisco World's Fair is one of the premier 2021 projects from writer, artist, and commercial designer Mark Bussler, director of Expo: Magic of the White City narrated by Gene Wilder, and the documentary film Westinghouse. Bussler is the writer of more than 100 books, including 1904 St. Louis World's Fair: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Photographs, 1939 New York World's Fair: The World of Tomorrow in Photographs, 1901 Buffalo World's Fair: The Pan-American Exposition in Photographs, and The Worlds Fair of 1893 Ultra Massive Photographic Adventure Series. Bussler is an avid world's fair historian and artist. He founded CGR Publishing and works as the lead cover designer with more than 300 books to his credit, many with art styles inspired by guidebooks and promotional material from past world's fairs. He is also a manga and comic book artist and writer/creator of Robot Kitten Factory, Omega Ronin, Magnum Skywolf, and more. About the Publisher: The CGR Publishing Restoration Workshop uses a vast array of computers and digital scanners to restore, preserve, and enhance the classic works of writers and artists from the 19th century. Each new release includes display-quality covers, enlarged covers, and retro fonts. Select books include Dante's Inferno Retro Hell-Bound Edition, Gustave Doré's London: A Pilgrimage, The Complete Book of Birds, A Life of George Westinghouse, The Clock Book: A Detailed Illustrated Collection of Classic Clocks, The Aeroplane Speaks, and much more.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : UOM:39015027875114
Author : Jeffrey L. Meikle
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781477308608
This illustrated history of the colorized linen postcards of the 1930s and ’40s is “an incredible tour . . . A veritable treasure trove of American culture” (Crave Online). From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a “linen” card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock embossed with a linen-like texture, linen postcards celebrated the American scene with views of majestic landscapes, modern cityscapes, roadside attractions, and other notable features. These colorful images portrayed the United States as shimmering with promise, quite unlike the black-and-white worlds of documentary photography or Life magazine. Linen postcards were enormously popular, with close to a billion printed and sold. Postcard America offers the first comprehensive study of these cards and their cultural significance. Drawing on the production files of Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, the originator of linen postcards, Jeffrey L. Meikle reveals how photographic views were transformed into colorized postcard images—often by means of manipulation—adding and deleting details or collaging bits and pieces from several photos. He presents two extensive portfolios of postcards—landscapes and cityscapes—that comprise a representative iconography of linen postcard views. For each image, Meikle explains the postcard’s subject, describes aspects of its production, and places it in social and cultural contexts. In the concluding chapter, he shifts from historical interpretation to a contemporary viewpoint, considering nostalgia as a motive for collectors and others who are fascinated today by these striking images.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195118022
Kevin Starr's portrait of California during the Great Depression is both detailed and panoramic. The study offers a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a decade of explosive tension.
Author : Maria Gravari-Barbas,Nelson Graburn,Jean-Francois Staszak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000681178
Tourism Fictions, Simulacra and Virtualities offers a new understanding of tourism’s interaction with space, questioning the ways in which fictions, simulacra and virtualities express tourism in the built environment and vice versa. Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired themed built environments that have a constitutive, and sometimes problematic, relationship with the “real” world and its architectural references. This volume questions and rethinks the different environments constructed or adapted both for and by tourism exploring the relationship between the “real” and the “unreal” within the tourist bubble and the ways in which the real world inspires simulacra for tourism use. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book touches on a wide range of geographical areas, eras and subjects such as post-socialist tourism in Poland, the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas, Rio de Janeiro’s Little Africa, as well as multiple instances of virtual reality in tourism. This timely and innovative volume will be of great interest to upper level students, researchers and academics in tourism, architecture, cultural studies, geography and heritage studies.
Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780816542550
Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.
Author : Barbara Baer Capitman,Michael D. Kinerk,Dennis W. Wilhelm
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015032601521
Author : Seán Crosson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000172508
Sport and film have historically been key components of national cultures and societies. This is the first collection dedicated to examining the intersection of these popular cultural forces within specific national contexts. Covering films of all types, from Hollywood blockbusters to regional documentaries and newsreels, the book considers how filmic depictions of sport have configured and informed distinctive national cultures, societies and identities. Featuring case studies from 11 national contexts across 6 continents – including North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania – it reveals the common and contrasting approaches that have emerged within sport cinema in differing national contexts. This is fascinating and important reading for all students and researchers working in film, media, cultural studies or sport, and for broader enthusiasts of both sport and film.
Author : Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781466879294
Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent. The principal gatherers are mostly little known and defy invention. They included "foreign devils" who braved desert sandstorms, bandits and local warlords in acquiring significant works. Adventurous curators like Langdon Warner, a forebear of Indiana Jones, argued that the caves of Dunhuang were already threatened by vandals, thereby justifying the removal of frescoes and sculptures. Other Americans include George Kates, an alumnus of Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood, who fell in love with Ming furniture. The Chinese were divided between dealers who profited from the artworks' removal, and scholars who sought to protect their country's patrimony. Duanfang, the greatest Chinese collector of his era, was beheaded in a coup and his splendid bronzes now adorn major museums. Others in this rich tapestry include Charles Lang Freer, an enlightened Detroit entrepreneur, two generations of Rockefellers, and Avery Brundage, the imperious Olympian, and Arthur Sackler, the grand acquisitor. No less important are two museum directors, Cleveland's Sherman Lee and Kansas City's Laurence Sickman, who challenged the East Coast's hegemony. Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer even-handedly consider whether ancient treasures were looted or salvaged, and whether it was morally acceptable to spirit hitherto inaccessible objects westward, where they could be studied and preserved by trained museum personnel. And how should the US and Canada and their museums respond now that China has the means and will to reclaim its missing patrimony?