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Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards--sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant friends and relatives. These postcards, which now enjoy another kind of craze in the collecting world, left what author John Miller Morris calls a "significant visual legacy" of the history and social geography of Texas. For more than a decade, Morris has been finding and studying the photographers and methodically gathering their postcards. In "Taming the Land," he ...
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
William Gardner (b.ca. 1714) and his family immigrated from Scotland to Virginia about 174O, and later moved to South Carolina. Descendants lived in South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and elsewhere. Includes genealogical data about Gardner families where no relationship is traced.