Was This Heaven?: A Self-Portrait of Iowa on Early Postcards

by Lyell D. Henry Jr.

Book Overview

In the early decades of the twentieth century, Iowans all across the Hawkeye State succumbed to the nationwide craze for exchanging photographic postcards, mailing each other thousands of images--serious and whimsical--of Uncle Bob and Baby Dora, the Sunday school outing, train wrecks, the Fourth of July celebration, the merchants' carnival, the record-setting blizzard following the bin-busting harvest, the new courthouse, Ackley's Sauer-Kraut...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877455201
• ISBN13: 9780877455202
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 7.8"