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Green Christmas - 30 years of Postcards by Jorge Paiva, book organized by the Exploratório - Centro Ciência Viva of Coimbra, in partnership with the Order of Biologists and Coimbra University Press, brings together the collection of Christmas postcards that Jorge Paiva, bologist and tireless activist in defense of biodiversity and the environment, has been publishing and distributing worldwide since 1990. “Enjoy the beauty of postcards, read carefully and learn from their messages.” [José Matos] "His message reached many thousands of people, students, teachers, readers and made many feel that they could, like him, contribute to “saving the planet””. [Paulo Renato Trincão] “This edition is a very valid tool in the educational work and the collective deepening of civic awareness […]”. [Luís Simões da Silva] "Each postcard tells a story of biodiversity in a different way, but always with relevance and challenge, urging us to act." Helena Freitas

30 years of christmas postcards --- Jorge paiva --- Green christmas

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"American women's suffrage activists were fascinated with suffrage themed postcards. They collected them, exchanged them, wrote about them, used them as fundraisers and organized 'postcard day' campaigns. The cards they produced were imaginative and ideological, advancing arguments for the enfranchisement of women and responding to antisuffrage broadsides. Publishers were also interested in suffrage cards, recognizing their profit potential"--

Women --- Postcards --- Suffrage --- History --- Pictorial works --- Political aspects --- History.

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From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a “linen” card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock embossed with a linen-like texture, linen postcards celebrated the American scene with views of majestic landscapes, modern cityscapes, roadside attractions, and other notable features. These colorful images portrayed the United States as shimmering with promise, quite unlike the black-and-white worlds of documentary photography or Life magazine. Linen postcards were enormously popular, with close to a billion printed and sold. Postcard America offers the first comprehensive study of these cards and their cultural significance. Drawing on the production files of Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, the originator of linen postcards, Jeffrey L. Meikle reveals how photographic views were transformed into colorized postcard images, often by means of manipulation—adding and deleting details or collaging bits and pieces from several photos. He presents two extensive portfolios of postcards—landscapes and cityscapes—that comprise a representative iconography of linen postcard views. For each image, Meikle explains the postcard’s subject, describes aspects of its production, and places it in social and cultural contexts. In the concluding chapter, he shifts from historical interpretation to a contemporary viewpoint, considering nostalgia as a motive for collectors and others who are fascinated today by these striking images.

Postcards --- History --- Collectors and collecting --- Curt Teich Postcard Collection (Lake County Museum)

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In Open Letters, the most comprehensive study of Russian picture postcards to date, Alison Rowley uses this medium to explore a variety of aspects of Russian popular culture.

Postcards --- Cards, Postal --- Picture postcards --- Post cards --- Postal cards --- Postal stationery --- History. --- Social aspects --- Russia. --- 1917 --- Rosja --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Ṛusastan --- Russian Empire --- Russie --- Russland --- Russia

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Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as tourist destinations and as emerging cities. Commercial photographers produced thousands of images of their streets, plazas, historic architecture, and tourist attractions, which were reproduced as photo postcards. Daniel Arreola has amassed one of the largest collections of these border town postcards, and in this book, he uses this amazing visual archive to offer a new way of understanding how the border towns grew and transformed themselves in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as how they were pictured to attract American tourists. Postcards from the Río Bravo Border presents nearly two hundred images of five significant towns on the lower Río Bravo—Matamoros, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, and Villa Acuña. Using multiple images of sites within each city, Arreola tracks changes both within the cities as places and in the ways in which the cities have been pictured for tourist consumption. He makes a strong case that visual imagery has a shaping influence on how we negotiate and think about places, creating a serial scripting or narrating of the place. Arreola also shows how postcard images, when systematically and chronologically arranged, can tell us a great deal about how Mexican border towns have been viewed over time. This innovative visual approach demonstrates that historical imagery, no less than text or maps, can be assembled to tell a compelling geographical story about place and time.

Postcards --- Urbanization --- Cities and towns --- History --- Ciudad Acuña (Mexico) --- Piedras Negras (Mexico) --- Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) --- Reinosa (Mexico) --- Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico) --- Mexico, North --- Ciudad Acuna (Mexico)