Postcard America: Curt Teich and the Imaging of a Nation, 1931-1950

by Jeffrey L. Meikle

Extensively illustrated with representative images, this unique book illuminates the cultural significance of the highly colorized "linen" postcards that depicted a glowing America in the 1930s and 1940s and that fascinate collectors today.

From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a "linen" card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292726619
• ISBN13: 9780292726611
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.5" x 10.3"