Greetings from Alabama : a pictorial history in vintage postcards : from the Wade Hall Collection of Historical Picture Postcards from Alabama
Wade Hall (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2016
NewSouth Books, Montgomery, AL, 2016