Dreamland (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Lesy
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Photography
- Time of Work: 1900-1910
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Journalism
- Subjects: African Americans, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, California, West, U.S., Immigration or emigration, Photography or photographers, Health, Imperialism, Industrialization, Automobiles, Urbanization, Photojournalism or photojournalists, Buildings
- Locales: United States
In his introduction to Dreamland, Michael Lesy explains that William Jackson and William Livingstone intended their popular postcards to show the brighter side of American culture at the turn of the twentieth century. To sell seven million postcards, panoramas, and slides per year, the Detroit Publishing Company needed to provide images that spoke to customers, many of whom were tourists who wanted pictures by which to remember their trips, in the days before snapshot cameras came into general use. Tourists were not the only customers: Schools, local governments, libraries, and...
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