Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they have been made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. Historically, postcards' innovation and significance was their ability to send and receive messages …
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"The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium. Literature has "died" many times--this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern-day obsession wit…
"Selected from among the more than 4,500 cards collected in the Zwerdling Nursing Archives - the world's largest collection of nursing postcard images - these exceptional scenes take you on a unique journey through the last hundred years of nursing care."--Jacket.
