Ebook: American holiday postcards, 1905-1915: imagery and context

"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.