Postcards from the Río Bravo Border: Picturing the Place, Placing the Picture, 1900s-1950s

by Daniel D. Arreola and Daniel D Arreola

Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as tourist destinations and as emerging cities. Commercial photographers produced thousands of images of their streets, plazas, historic architecture, and tourist attractions, which were reproduced as photo postcards. Daniel Arreola has amassed one of the largest collections of these border town postcards, and in this book, he uses this amazing visual archive to offer a new way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292752806
• ISBN13: 9780292752801
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 10.2"