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The Postcard Century: 2000 Cards and Their Messages - Softcover

Phillips, Tom

 
9780500975909: The Postcard Century: 2000 Cards and Their Messages
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500975906 ISBN 13: 9780500975909
Verlag: THAMES & HUDSON, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Provides an account of the last one hundred years illustrated through postcards collected from around the world, offering a glimpse of what daily life was like through the messages enscribed on each card.

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This work tells the story of the 20th century using images and messages from 2000 picture postcards. The postcards depict the day-to-day life of people and what mattered to them, pleased them, shocked or amused them via the cards they chose to send. Year-by-year the book presents everyone from the high and mighty to the low and the worthy talking about the characters, events and hot spots of the century. Saucy seaside jokes, the disasters of the war, the hazards of travel, the caprices of life in work and leisure - all are pictured and discussed. Each year begins with postcard views of the New York skyline and of Piccadily Circus. Though centred on Britain and the USA, cards come from every corner of the world, from Los Angeles to Beijing, from Antarctica to Alaska. Themes which evolved with the century emerge including: transportation (aviation takes us from the Wright Brothers to the moon); cinema; the role of women; fashion; and holidays. Each postcard is accompanied by a caption which places its message in context.

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Verlag
THAMES & HUDSON
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500975906
ISBN 13 
9780500975909
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
452
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