Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Evolution of the Picture Postcard
Collecting the World
Innovation and Commerce
Current Affairs and Social Issues
The Photo Postcard: A New Way of Capturing and Mailing the World
The Messages
Introduction
The Real Photo Postcard and Military Conflict
The Archive
Introduction
“Thanks for beautiful card. I think you do fine work.”&
You Press the Button, We Do the Rest
Your Photo on a Post Card in 10 Minutes
Asahel Curtis
The Glenwood Moon
Two Young Photographers
A Blue Horse
Talking to Himself
Delivering the Mail
Birdman
It Was Electric!
Chief Thunder Cloud
Operator
The Electric Car
Queensboro Bridge
North Dakota Gas Mains
Moving Dirt
Postcards and Souvenirs
A Sweet Job
Our Yard
A Twenty-five Dollar Bouquet
When Times Were Close
Fifty-Cent Cure
Cold Milk
The Pancake Man
A Dollar a Day
General Booster
Something Doing
Indian Speedway
The Christmas Clipper
New Chicago
Selling Remembrance
Fellrath’s Famous Shoes
Randlett Parade
The Big Cheese
The Lyndon Street Fair
Bull Moose
Reunion
The Circus on Summer St.
Fire Team No. 1
Somebody’s Aprons
40 Acres a Day
The Garden
Never Give Up
Jack’s Friend
Ready to Ship
Dady and Baby
Blue Jacket Tonsorial Artist
Ready for 8
Shop Girls
Lone Tree Blacksmiths
At a Dead Run
A Big Barn
Making $200 Per
“The Women of Cali are making a great campaign.”
A Balloon, Votes for Women, and Doughnuts
Breaker Boys
What Do You Think?
Once Proud
Dr. Mary Walker, American Hero
The Great White Hope
Bought Votes
The Eye of the Beholder
The Bonus Army
Five of Us
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Hospital
Scarlet Fever
Prosperity?
“Their” Dead
The Fish Fry
Miss Anna C. Park
Melvin’s Ride
Charley and the Conductor’s Wife
Grasshopper Oil Field
What’s Up Doc?
Two to Five
Baby Beamer
Nellie’s Dream
Riverboat
The Walcott–Encampment Run
Long Distances
Raising the Bridge
The Regal 30
Winfield Trolley
Buick Motor Sleigh
The China Clipper
Baseball Champs
A Forward Coaster
St. Ed’s Eleven
Indina Boy
A Sunday Game
Queen City Wheelmen
Monett Midgets
The Swallow Dive
Syracuse vs. Colgate, 1910
The Burman Special
Beauty and the Beast
Great Adams
Cast Up by the Sea
Our Entertainments
Smallest Mother
Lillian Hayward as “Silver Heels”
Supreme Favorites
Imlah’s Bear
Sage Hen Dinner
I Am Alright Again
Three Kinds of Foxes
New Mexico Venison
A True Fish Story
Love from Brown Eyes
Good Friends
The Wedding Party
Pony Boy
One Down, Two to Go?
No Hunting
You Haint the Only One
“This is the way we looked the morning we started on our trip.”
A Grand Adventure
At the Beach
The Balloon Race
Jakob
Let Women Fly!
A State Fair Keepsake
No One to Meet Me
A Real Live Ostrich
160 Acres
The Claim
The Hermits
Noble Savages
Branding Time
Bathing in the Low Line Canal
Route 66 Was a Trained Buffalo
Let ’Er Buck
The Knickerbocker Storm
Wreck on the Lima–Toledo Line
Galveston Hurricane, 1915
Dark as Night, Cold as Death
Fire and Ice
Dust
Relics from the Ruins
The Great Easter Flood
Crash!
A Heart of Ice
Fire at Fergus Falls
Untimely Funeral
“Eighteen have gone across the water.”
Captain Thomas Leonard
The Macon Reunion
The 71st NY Boys
Thirty-Seven Planes
The Ballston Spa Volunteers
His Own Sweet Self
The Y Girls
Red Cross Quilt
Blue Stars and Gold Stars
The Tustin Red Cross Shop
Good Bye, Kaiser Bill
Yours Truly
Chickamauga
“it contained twenty different prizes which afforded quite a bit of sport.”
The Punkin Palace
Fourth of July Watermelon
Christmas in the Park
Halloween Prizes
Memorial Day, 1909
The “Old Maids” Kensington
Liberty Across the Land
Columbus School House
Hoosiers’ New Term
Our Room
Seniors
Down to the River
Hell, and How to Get There
Sunday
Aunt Mary Goddard
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index