American holiday postcards, 1905-1915: imagery and context

✍ Scribed by Gifford, Daniel

• Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"This book argues that holiday postcards circulated primarily among rural and small town, Northern, white women with Anglo-Saxon and Germanic heritages. Gifford reconsiders the postcard phenomenon as an image-based conversation among exclusive groups of Americans. This book demonstrates how the postcard images reveal deep divides at the height of the Progressive Era"--;Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction; One. We Gather Together: Finding Audiences Within the American Postcard Fad; Two. Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot: Revising the History of the Postcard Phenomenon; Three. Tidings of Comfort and Joy: The Functions and Uses of Postcards; Four. Field and Fountain, Moor and Mountain: The Rural Landscape in Holiday Postcards; Five. Love's Redeeming Work Is Done: Images of Women and Courtship in Holiday Postcards; Six. Oh Beautiful for Pilgrim Feet: Patriotism and Race in Holiday Postcards.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Introduction
One. We Gather Together: Finding Audiences Within the American Postcard Fad
Two. Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot: Revising the History of the Postcard Phenomenon
Three. Tidings of Comfort and Joy: The Functions and Uses of Postcards
Four. Field and Fountain, Moor and Mountain: The Rural Landscape in Holiday Postcards
Five. Love's Redeeming Work Is Done: Images of Women and Courtship in Holiday Postcards
Six. Oh Beautiful for Pilgrim Feet: Patriotism and Race in Holiday Postcards. Seven. And What Was on Those Ships All Three?: Images of New Technology in Holiday PostcardsEpilogue
Appendix
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index.

✦ Subjects

Greeting cards--United States--History--20th century;Postcards--United States--History--20th century;REFERENCE--Etiquette;;Manners and customs;Postcards;Greeting cards;Electronic books;History;Postcards -- United States -- History -- 20th century;Greeting cards -- United States -- History -- 20th century;United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century;REFERENCE -- Etiquette;United States