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A Delaware Album, 1900-1930 (Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore)

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A Delaware Album, 1900-1930 contains over 300 postcard photographs from all of the state taken all over the period from 1900 to 1930. Arranged by subjects—City and Town Views; Delaware Beaches; Amusements; Industry and Agriculture; Signs of the Times; Trains, Trolleys, and Automobiles; Water Transportation; Schools; Religion; Businesses; Hotels and Motels—each and every photo has a caption ranging from a sentence or two to several paragraphs. The book’s introduction details how the cards were produced, analyzes the subject material depicted on the cards, documents the history of several of the most prominent local photographers in the state whose work is found almost only on postcards, and traces the evolution and popularization of postcard photography.
Through the photographs readers can witness the development of Delaware agriculture and fisheries, the expansion of the railroad into southern Delaware, the declining days of steamship service on Delaware rivers and creeks, the fate of Middletown’s last trolley, and Delaware’s unsuccessful campaign against “King Alcohol.” They are able to see how Delawareans worshiped, worked, and shopped. They are able to visit local amusement parks and beaches from New Castle county to Sussex county.
For the early decades of the twentieth century the postcard recorded each and every aspect of American life. As local historians will tell you, the photographic record of small town The usa all over the period from 1900 to 1930 exists almost only on postcards. Because of this historical societies, libraries, and museums have begun to amass postcard collections. In the last twenty years, historians and scholars have an increasing number of turned to the postcard as a way of seeing what our past literally appeared like, what we enjoyed doing, where we worked and played, how we viewed one other, what we thought used to be important, and what prejudices we held.

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