Moments in time, a book of Australian postcards, Jim Davidson
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Moments in time, a book of Australian postcards, Jim Davidson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (page 207)
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federal national government publication
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portraitsfacsimilesillustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Moments in time
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Jim Davidson
Sub title
a book of Australian postcards
Summary
At the height of the postcard boom, when there were several deliveries of the post every day, you could send a postcard in the morning to arrange a meeting for that afternoon. Postcards were indeed the emails of their day. Old postcards have an immediacy about them that is striking: they provide a rich source of imagery and, together with their messages, they give us a glimpse of another life, another time. Among the 300 postcards in this book, most are from the late 1880s to the 1950s, with a few included from the following decades to today. There are postcards of just about everything -- war and peace, disasters and celebrations, holidays and home life, sports and theatre, rural and city living, love for 'The Dear Old Country' and pride in Australia -- to name a few
Target audience
adult
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