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Book A Postcard View of Hell  One Doughboy   s Souvenir Album of the First World War

Download or read book A Postcard View of Hell One Doughboy s Souvenir Album of the First World War written by Frank Jacob and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Railways of Brazil in Postcards and Souvenir Albums

Download or read book Railways of Brazil in Postcards and Souvenir Albums written by João Emilio Gerodetti and published by Solaris Editorial. This book was released on 2005 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building an American Identity

Download or read book Building an American Identity written by Linda E. Smeins and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities.

Book Alphabetic Catalog of the Books  Manuscripts  Maps  Pictures and Curios of the Illinois State Historical Library

Download or read book Alphabetic Catalog of the Books Manuscripts Maps Pictures and Curios of the Illinois State Historical Library written by Illinois State Historical Library and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901  Main part

Download or read book Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Main part written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peoples of the Plateau

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven L. Grafe
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780806137421
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Peoples of the Plateau written by Steven L. Grafe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book marks the first major examination of Moorhouse and his work. Featuring eighty plates, it not only showcases Moorhouse's extensive photographs but also tells the story of the man and of the world in which he lived and worked."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vanishing Paradise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth C. Childs
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2013-05-18
  • ISBN : 0520271734
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Vanishing Paradise written by Elizabeth C. Childs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanishing paradise" offers a fresh take on the modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the exoticism of the American John LaFarge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams. Childs explores how these artists wrestled with the elusiveness of paradise and portrayed colonial Tahiti in ways both mythic and modern.

Book Texas Lithographs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ron Tyler
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2023-02-28
  • ISBN : 1477325980
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Texas Lithographs written by Ron Tyler and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westward expansion in the United States was deeply intertwined with the technological revolutions of the nineteenth century, from telegraphy to railroads. Among the most important of these, if often forgotten, was the lithograph. Before photography became a dominant medium, lithography—and later, chromolithography—enabled inexpensive reproduction of color illustrations, transforming journalism and marketing and nurturing, for the first time, a global visual culture. One of the great subjects of the lithography boom was an emerging Euro-American colony in the Americas: Texas. The most complete collection of its kind—and quite possibly the most complete visual record of nineteenth-century Texas, period—Texas Lithographs is a gateway to the history of the Lone Star State in its most formative period. Ron Tyler assembles works from 1818 to 1900, many created by outsiders and newcomers promoting investment and settlement in Texas. Whether they depict the early French colony of Champ d’Asile, the Republic of Texas, and the war with Mexico, or urban growth, frontier exploration, and the key figures of a nascent Euro-American empire, the images collected here reflect an Eden of opportunity—a fairy-tale dream that remains foundational to Texans’ sense of self and to the world’s sense of Texas.

Book Peel s Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953

Download or read book Peel s Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 written by Ernest Boyce Ingles and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Book Synopsis of the Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff  Navigation  and Other Laws for the Year Ended

Download or read book Synopsis of the Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff Navigation and Other Laws for the Year Ended written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1891-1897 include decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.

Book Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws

Download or read book Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1904-1926 include also decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers

Book United States Local Histories in the Library of Congress  The West

Download or read book United States Local Histories in the Library of Congress The West written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Photography in Japan 1853 1912

Download or read book Photography in Japan 1853 1912 written by Terry Bennett and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography in Japan 1853-1912 is a fascinating visual record of Japanese culture during its metamorphosis from a feudal society to a modern, industrial nation at a time when the art of photography was still in its infancy. The 350 rare and antique photos in this book, most of them published here for the first time, chronicle the introduction of photography in Japan and early Japanese photography. The images are more than just a history of photography in Japan; they are vital in helping to understand the dramatic changes that occurred in Japan during the mid-nineteenth century. These rare Japanese photographs--whether sensational or everyday, intimate or panoramic--document a nation about to abandon its traditional ways and enter the modern era. Taken between 1853 and 1912 by the most important Japanese and foreign photographers working in Japan, this is the first book to document the history of early photography in Japan a comprehensive and systematic way.

Book Publications

    Book Details:
  • Author : Illinois State Historical Society
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Publications written by Illinois State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: