ISBN: 1557284512
Author: Ray Hanley
Language: English
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press; 1st Edition edition (July 1, 1997)
Pages: 477
Category: Americas
Subcategory: History
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 629
Size Fb2: 1583 kb
Size ePub: 1982 kb
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In turn-of-the-century America, "Wish you were here" was an often-penned phrase used on the backs of postcards .
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. Taken from a collection of over five thousand postcards amassed by brothers Steven and Ray Hanley, these 431 images offer a close look into the lives of Arkansans during the early part of the twentieth century. Many of these scenes appeared in the Arkansas Gazette and in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in the popular daily feature "Arkansas Postcard Past".
Wish You Were Here book. The 431 examples of picture postcards offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Arkansans during the early part of the twentieth century.
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 Story of Wish You Were Here is a direct-to-video documentary about the making of Wish You Were Here album by Pink Floyd. After being shown on a few television channels, such as BBC Four, it was released on 26 June 2012, on DVD and Blu-ray
The Story of Wish You Were Here is a direct-to-video documentary about the making of Wish You Were Here album by Pink Floyd. After being shown on a few television channels, such as BBC Four, it was released on 26 June 2012, on DVD and Blu-ray. The film gives an extensive insight of concept, recording the songs and designing the album cover. It includes exclusive interviews with almost every key person, who participated in producing the album
Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad . Showcased in this fascinating collection are over two hundred postcards from 1900 to 1960.
Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. In the words written on one card in 1910, Many people of wealth are here from Chicago and New York. Uncle Billy went to the horse show ball at the Eastman Hotel with an ex-wife of a millionaire. Andrew Carnegie and young Jay Gould were at the ball. Read on the Scribd mobile app. Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere.
Collected and interpreted by Diane Hanley and Ray Hanley, the images in this informative volume provide readers with a delightful trip down memory lane, bringing an important period of the counties' history to life for visitors and members of the younger generation.
Flaunting her curves and toned legs under the words 'Wish you were here', she’ll surely have every man shouting . The cards come as figures show just one in six Brits sent a postcard last year.
Flaunting her curves and toned legs under the words 'Wish you were here', she’ll surely have every man shouting 'Me too!' The cards come as figures show just one in six Brits sent a postcard last year. Too good to pass up: Kelly Brook said she relished the 'chance to be immortalised by a 1950s postcard illustrator'
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album).
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album). Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records and Columbia Records, their first release for the latter. Based on material Pink Floyd composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded over numerous sessions throughout 1975, at Abbey Road Studios in London.