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Greetings from Alabama : a pictorial history in vintage postcards : from the Wade Hall Collection of historical picture postcards from Alabama/ Wade H. Hall ; with Nancy B. DuPree and Christopher Sawula.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Wade, 1934-2015, author.
- DuPree, Nancy B., author.
- Sawula, Christopher, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hall, Wade, 1934-2015.
- Hall, Wade.
- Postcards--Private collections.
- Postcards.
- Manners and customs.
- Alabama--History.
- Alabama.
- History.
- Alabama--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
- Alabama--Pictorial works.
- Postcards--Private collections--Alabama.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montgomery : NewSouth Books, [2016]
- Summary:
- I don't remember the first time I ever received a picture postcard, but the first time I ever sent one was from Heidelberg, Germany, in the mid-1950s, when I was in the U.S. Army. I had just arrived from the States, and I wanted my family to see what Germany looked like. I went to the Post Exchange and selected a bird's-eye view of the city taken from the top of a nearby mountain. In the weeks and months that followed, I mailed dozens of picture postcards back home to friends and relatives. I was able to show my distant readers, none of whom had ever been to Europe, what I was seeing as I traveled around Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, and England. It was a pattern of communication that had been set in the United States as early as 1893 with postcard views of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago as the nation celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of the European discovery of the New World. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A Note on Organization Mobile County 3
- Baldwin County 19
- Escambia County 27
- Houston County 31
- Dale County 37
- South Alabama 41
- Montgomery County 53
- Lee County 69
- Talladega County 73
- Dallas County 79
- Tuscaloosa County 85
- Central Alabama 99
- Jefferson County 121
- Calhoun County 139
- Etowah County 153
- Madison County 159
- Morgan County 167
- Colbert County 171
- Lauderdale County 177
- North Alabama 183.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1588383202
- 9781588383204
- OCLC:
- 966482657
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