Brooklyn, New York in Vintage Postcards

by Randall Gabrielan

Book Overview

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738587869
• ISBN13: 9780738587868
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"