[PDF] Vintage Postcards From The African World eBook

Author : Jessica B. Harris
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496827694

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For over forty years, professor and culinary historian Jessica B. Harris has collected postcards depicting Africans and their descendants in the American diaspora. They are presented for the first time in this exquisite volume. Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play brings together more than 150 images, providing a visual document of more than a century of work in agricultural and culinary pursuits and joy in entertainments, parades, and celebrations. Organized by geography—Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States—as well as by the types of scenes depicted—the farm, the garden, and the sea; the marketplace; the vendors and the cooks; leisure, entertainments, and festivities—the images capture the dignity of the labors of everyday life and the pride of festive occasions. Superb and rare images demonstrate everything from how Africans and their descendants dressed to what tools they used to how their entertainments provided relief from toil. Three essays accompany the postcards, one of which details Harris’s collection and the collecting process. A second presents suggestions on how to interpret the cards. A final essay gives brief information on the history of postcards and postcard dating and its increasing use and value to scholars.

Author : Jessica B. Harris
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781496827685

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An extraordinary view of the bounty of Africa and its diaspora.

Author : Theresa McCulla
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 022683381X

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A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In Insatiable City, Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city significantly defined by its foodways. Tracking the city’s economy from nineteenth-century chattel slavery to twentieth-century tourism, McCulla uses menus, cookbooks, newspapers, postcards, photography, and other material culture to limn the interplay among the production and reception of food, the inscription and reiteration of racial hierarchies, and the constant diminishment and exploitation of working-class people. The consumption of food and people, she shows, was mutually reinforced and deeply intertwined. Yet she also details how enslaved and free people of color in New Orleans used food and drink to carve paths of mobility, stability, autonomy, freedom, profit, and joy. A story of pain and pleasure, labor and leisure, Insatiable City goes far beyond the task of tracing New Orleans's culinary history to focus on how food suffuses culture and our understandings and constructions of race and power.

Author : Alan Beukers
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :

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Haunting postcard images of the non-Western world from a century ago. The antique postcards depicted here were acquired in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Western tourists, business people, traders, and colonialists. The circumstances in which the cards were sent, and the details of those who sent them, are largely lost. Yet the audience for collecting them has enjoyed a spectacular growth in recent years and includes not only those with the collecting instinct or the desire to travel but also artists, photographic historians, fashion and jewelry specialists, and designers everywhere. Once it was believed that by taking someone's portrait you stole that person's soul. Here, the human subjects have a powerful presence because they express a deep-seated connection with the land and customs that gave them their identities. Their stories are implicit in their eyes, their costumes, and their postures. Reproduced with complete fidelity, these postcards take us on a magical journey across the world in five travelogues, depicting Asia, the Arab Lands, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. The book is introduced by one of the greatest and most successful travel writers of our time.

Author : Christraud M. Geary
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 1998-04-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :

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The authors discuss the differences between original photographs and their postcard equivalents, and they explore in detail common practices - such as artificial settings, costumes and props, colorization, and patronizing captions - that perpetuated racist, sexist, and romantic stereotypes.

Author : Sheril Lee
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781716499371

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The Post Office approved the postcard in 1907 and they instantly became widely used. It was a popular way to communicate. Exotic vacation spots began to offer picture postcards depicting local scenery providing both a keepsake and a simple way to promote the location. Growing in popularity postcards were sold in tourist destinations around the world. In the United State they could be found in Hotels, Motels, Bars, Restaurants, Gas Stations and Gift Shops. Black and white postcards soon gave way to color Linen postcards. Photochrome color postcards quickly took over the marketplace around 1945.

Author : Jeremy Warlen
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2020-06-03
Category :
ISBN :

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Full Moons, Black cats, Pumpkin Heads and Witches were the faces of Halloween back in the "Golden Age of Postcards." In this collection, you will get to see 101 unique, kooky, eye-catching (and some bizarre) art used to promote the Halloween Season. This is a great coffee-table conversation starter book or an awesome gift for a postcard collector or Halloween Lover! Also, these images can be used in art and design projects or printed and framed to make stunning decorative artworks for your home and office. Each postcard has a URL link so you can locate the image easily.

Author : Carley R. Robison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738507620

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Galesburg, Illinois, is a town proud of its history and heritage. From its founding by courageous and determined pioneers in 1837 to the present day, it has been referred to in many ways--including "The Ideal City" and "The Buckle on the Corn Belt." Galesberg, Illinois in Vintage Postcards uses postcards as the lens to focus on the fascinating history of this Midwestern town. Throughout its history, the postcard has always been a popular means of communication. Looking back at them now, we are offered a unique insight into the places and times illustrated on the cards, and an intimate look at the people sending these cards to loved ones in faraway locations.

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Publisher : MFA Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780878468553

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A close look at photographic postcards made in Africa in the first decades of the twentieth century reveals surprising images and tells their often-complicated stories. Photographers in Africa grasped the opportunity to serve a lucrative market for images of the continent, both locally and worldwide, during the global postcard craze that peaked around 1900 and continued for several decades. Their picture postcards now contribute to understanding political, social and cultural changes in Africa at the time, as the rise of the new medium coincided with the expansion and consolidation of colonial rule. They also provide a way to reconstruct the life and work of the photographers of European, African and other backgrounds who created these images - which often survive only in postcard form - and in some cases published them as well. The cards were produced for residents and travellers in Africa, as well as for buyers and collectors who had never set foot on the continent. Their depictions of colonial administrations, exploitation of resources and peoples, as well as images inscribing tribal identities and racial classifications, often reflect the colonizers' worldview. Yet it is also possible to recover the authorship of some of the African women and men who participated in these photographic encounters. For instance, some cards show that members of Africa's elites recognized the power of photographic images to enhance their standing and present their own narratives. Postcards from Africa reproduces a significant selection of these complex cards - the majority drawn from the extensive Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - accompanied by a leading scholar's exploration of the stories they tell.