Wish You Were Here: Arkansas Postcard Past, 1900-1925

by Ray Hanley and Steven Hanley

In Turn-of-the-Century America, wish you were here was an often-penned phrase used on the backs of postcards that had been purchased for a few pennies and mailed with a one-cent stamp. The picture postcard craze produced countless thousands of images from everyday life -- new schools, crowded main streets, storefronts and interiors, fields of harvest, churches, families, trains, resort spas, fires, and floods. The examples presented here -- taken...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557284512
• ISBN13: 9781557284518
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.0" x 7.0"