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Postcards from the Río Bravo border : picturing the place, placing the picture, 1900s-1950s, by Daniel D. Arreola
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xix, 258 pages
- Note
- "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
- Contents
-
- Postcards
- II.
- Postcard Views
- 3.
- Gateways
- 4.
- Streets
- 5.
- Plazas
- 6.
- List of Illustrations
- Attractions
- 7.
- Businesses and Landmarks
- 8.
- Everyday Life
- III.
- Sight into Site
- 9.
- View of the Place, Place of the View
- Appendix: Postcard Writings
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Introduction
- I.
- Places and Postcards
- 1.
- Río Bravo Border Towns
- 2.
- Isbn
- 9780292752818
- Label
- Postcards from the Río Bravo border : picturing the place, placing the picture, 1900s-1950s
- Title
- Postcards from the Río Bravo border
- Title remainder
- picturing the place, placing the picture, 1900s-1950s
- Statement of responsibility
- by Daniel D. Arreola
- Subject
-
- Cities and towns
- Cities and towns -- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century
- Ciudad Acuña (Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- Mexico -- Ciudad Acuña
- Mexico -- Matamoros (Tamaulipas)
- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo
- Mexico -- Piedras Negras
- Mexico -- Reynosa (Tamaulipas)
- Mexico, North
- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- 1900-1999
- Pictorial works
- Piedras Negras (Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- Postcards
- Postcards -- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century
- Reynosa (Tamaulipas, Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- Urbanization
- Urbanization -- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century
- Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Arreola, Daniel D.
- Dewey number
- 307.760972/10904
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HT127.7
- LC item number
- .A774 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Cities and towns
- Urbanization
- Mexico, North
- Postcards
- Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico)
- Reynosa (Tamaulipas, Mexico)
- Nuevo Laredo (Mexico)
- Piedras Negras (Mexico)
- Ciudad Acuña (Mexico)
- Cities and towns
- Postcards
- Urbanization
- Mexico
- Mexico
- Mexico, North
- Mexico
- Mexico
- Mexico
- Label
- Postcards from the Río Bravo border : picturing the place, placing the picture, 1900s-1950s, by Daniel D. Arreola
- Note
- "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from an electronic resource
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Postcards
- II.
- Postcard Views
- 3.
- Gateways
- 4.
- Streets
- 5.
- Plazas
- 6.
- List of Illustrations
- Attractions
- 7.
- Businesses and Landmarks
- 8.
- Everyday Life
- III.
- Sight into Site
- 9.
- View of the Place, Place of the View
- Appendix: Postcard Writings
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Introduction
- I.
- Places and Postcards
- 1.
- Río Bravo Border Towns
- 2.
- Control code
- 820678665
- Dimensions
- 27 cm
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xix, 258 pages
- File format
- multiple file formats
- Isbn
- 9780292752818
- Lccn
- 2012044413
- Level of compression
- lossless
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- Quality assurance targets
- present
- Reformatting quality
- replacement
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)820678665
- Label
- Postcards from the Río Bravo border : picturing the place, placing the picture, 1900s-1950s, by Daniel D. Arreola
- Note
- "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from an electronic resource
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Postcards
- II.
- Postcard Views
- 3.
- Gateways
- 4.
- Streets
- 5.
- Plazas
- 6.
- List of Illustrations
- Attractions
- 7.
- Businesses and Landmarks
- 8.
- Everyday Life
- III.
- Sight into Site
- 9.
- View of the Place, Place of the View
- Appendix: Postcard Writings
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Introduction
- I.
- Places and Postcards
- 1.
- Río Bravo Border Towns
- 2.
- Control code
- 820678665
- Dimensions
- 27 cm
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xix, 258 pages
- File format
- multiple file formats
- Isbn
- 9780292752818
- Lccn
- 2012044413
- Level of compression
- lossless
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- Quality assurance targets
- present
- Reformatting quality
- replacement
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)820678665
Subject
- Cities and towns
- Cities and towns -- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century
- Ciudad Acuña (Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- Mexico -- Ciudad Acuña
- Mexico -- Matamoros (Tamaulipas)
- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo
- Mexico -- Piedras Negras
- Mexico -- Reynosa (Tamaulipas)
- Mexico, North
- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- 1900-1999
- Pictorial works
- Piedras Negras (Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- Postcards
- Postcards -- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century
- Reynosa (Tamaulipas, Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
- Urbanization
- Urbanization -- Mexico, North -- History -- 20th century
- Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) -- History -- 20th century
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