Our Town on the Plains: J. J. Pennell's Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922

by James R. Shortridge and John Pultz

By the beginning of the twentieth century, photography had become accessible to average Americans as a means of documenting their lives. Although most people did not yet own cameras, they flocked to commercial photographers for affordable portraits that became the family heirlooms we gape at in wonder today. One of the most accomplished of these photographers was Joseph Judd Pennell of Junction City, Kansas. Pennell had one of the best equipped studios...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061043X
• ISBN13: 9780700610433
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 10.3"