Author: Alan Spree
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398115002
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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A fascinating portrait of Newcastle upon Tyne presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.
Author: Alan Spree
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398118389
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Explore a fascinating portrait of Exeter presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.
Author: Caroline Barnsley
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445634546
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Beautiful postcards capture old South Shields in all its glory
Author: Peter Wardall
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144567758X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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A fascinating portrait of Southampton presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.
Author: Cheryl Buckley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857712578
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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Representations of fashionable femininity have multiplied throughout the 20th century, with complex versions of feminine identity being found in fashion store advertising, magazines, photography, and museum collections. This book examines the relationship between women's fashion, female representation and femininity in Britain throughout the 1900s. The authors unpick the dynamics of the fashion system and set fashion into the context of British social life, using the oral history accounts of women of all classes to highlight the meanings of particular fashions.
Author: Frank Jacob
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622734513
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we look carefully, postcards offer valuable insights into the time periods in which they were created and the mentalities of those who bought or sent them. Frank Marhefka, while serving in the U.S. Army Motor Transportation Corps during the First World War, amassed a collection of more than 150 postcards and photographs while in France, and bound them into a souvenir album. Marhefka’s collection provides a diverse and vivid look into a period of history that – in many soldiers’ accounts – is not usually visualized with all its cruelties. Emphasizing the pictorial turn of the Great War, this album offers personal insight into a conflict that caused so much death and destruction. The book begins with an introduction providing a history of postcards and their extensive use by soldiers during the Great War. Then, after a biography of Marhefka, his postcard collection is presented in its entirety. Accompanying the images are brief texts that place them into historical context, as well as suggestions for further reading. As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who have an interest in military history and popular culture.
Author: Christopher Wright
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300117301
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.
Author: Robert Wall
Publisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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The cards provide an enduring record of the great age of intercontinental travel by sea. This book gives a fascinating picture of a more leisured age before the advent of the jet airliner.
Author: Alan Spree
Publisher: Postcard Collection
ISBN: 9781398114999
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A fascinating portrait of Newcastle upon Tyne presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.
Author: Christopher Deakes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493077627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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From around 1880, for almost a hundred years, shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted their magnificent liners as well as the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life onboard. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on postcards and posters of the day and were used to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was born a whole genre that produced tens of thousands of paintings which formed a wonderful record of the great era of the passenger liner. In 1900, there were over thirty shipping companies operating passenger liners across the North Atlantic. Other oceans were similarly served. But now, with just a few exceptions, the companies and their liners have disappeared along with the art they once inspired. Little remains to recall this aspect of our maritime past except the postcards; and they tell an evocative story of the vanished world of elegant ships and leisurely travel, of social and political times much changed by the history of the past century. Here, brought vividly to life in more than 500 colourful postcards, are the ships on which so many of our predecessors sailed—as emigrants, soldiers, administrators, or simply as tourists—in days long past. These cards, which are now highly collectable, show how steamships developed over the years, but they are also a fine tribute to the artists who painted them. This volume also includes a glossary of some 170 illustrators, which forms an important reference section, and advice on collecting.
