The Resource Emma's postcard album : Black lives in the early twentieth century, Faith Mitchell
Emma's postcard album : Black lives in the early twentieth century, Faith Mitchell
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The item Emma's postcard album : Black lives in the early twentieth century, Faith Mitchell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- "The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard with friends and family members and collected the cards she received from all over the country. Her album-spanning from 1906 to 1910 and analyzed in Emma's Postcard Album-becomes an entry point into a deeply textured understanding of the nuances and complexities of African American lives and the survival strategies that enabled people "to make a way from no way." As snippets of lived experience, eye-catching visual images, and reflections of historical moments, the cards in the collection become sources for understanding not only African American life, but also broader American history and culture. In Emma's Postcard Album, Faith Mitchell innovatively places the contents of this postcard collection into specific historic and biographical contexts and provides a new interpretation of postcards as life writings, a much-neglected aspect of scholarship. Through these techniques, a riveting world we know far too little about is revealed, and we gain new insights into the perspectives and experience of African Americans-in their own words. Capping off these contributions, the text is a visual feast, illustrated with arresting images from the Golden Age of postcards as well as newspaper clippings and other archival material"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 226 pages
- Contents
-
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Introduction: Emma Crawford's postcard collection
- Chapter one: What stories can postcards tell?
- Chapter two: The status of the Negro in this country
- Chapter three: Fighting for their daily bread
- Chapter five: On the road with the minstrel show
- Chapter six: Struggling and striving
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Isbn
- 9781496843159
- Label
- Emma's postcard album : Black lives in the early twentieth century
- Title
- Emma's postcard album
- Title remainder
- Black lives in the early twentieth century
- Statement of responsibility
- Faith Mitchell
- Subject
-
- African American families -- History -- 20th century
- African American women
- African American women -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans
- African Americans -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- History -- Pictorial works
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Social conditions | History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- African Americans in art
- African Americans in art -- 20th century
- History
- Pictorial works
- Postcards
- Postcards -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- 1900-1999
- African American families
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard with friends and family members and collected the cards she received from all over the country. Her album-spanning from 1906 to 1910 and analyzed in Emma's Postcard Album-becomes an entry point into a deeply textured understanding of the nuances and complexities of African American lives and the survival strategies that enabled people "to make a way from no way." As snippets of lived experience, eye-catching visual images, and reflections of historical moments, the cards in the collection become sources for understanding not only African American life, but also broader American history and culture. In Emma's Postcard Album, Faith Mitchell innovatively places the contents of this postcard collection into specific historic and biographical contexts and provides a new interpretation of postcards as life writings, a much-neglected aspect of scholarship. Through these techniques, a riveting world we know far too little about is revealed, and we gain new insights into the perspectives and experience of African Americans-in their own words. Capping off these contributions, the text is a visual feast, illustrated with arresting images from the Golden Age of postcards as well as newspaper clippings and other archival material"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- MsSM/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mitchell, Faith
- Dewey number
- 973/.049607300904
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.86
- LC item number
- .M567 2023
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Atlantic migrations and the african diaspora
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- African Americans
- African American families
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African American women
- African Americans
- African Americans in art
- Postcards
- African American families
- African American women
- African Americans
- African Americans in art
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Postcards
- United States
- Label
- Emma's postcard album : Black lives in the early twentieth century, Faith Mitchell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Introduction: Emma Crawford's postcard collection
- Chapter one: What stories can postcards tell?
- Chapter two: The status of the Negro in this country
- Chapter three: Fighting for their daily bread
- Chapter five: On the road with the minstrel show
- Chapter six: Struggling and striving
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Control code
- on1333086067
- Dimensions
- 27 cm.
- Extent
- 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9781496843159
- Lccn
- 2022024351
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
- Label
- Emma's postcard album : Black lives in the early twentieth century, Faith Mitchell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Introduction: Emma Crawford's postcard collection
- Chapter one: What stories can postcards tell?
- Chapter two: The status of the Negro in this country
- Chapter three: Fighting for their daily bread
- Chapter five: On the road with the minstrel show
- Chapter six: Struggling and striving
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Control code
- on1333086067
- Dimensions
- 27 cm.
- Extent
- 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9781496843159
- Lccn
- 2022024351
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
Subject
- African American families -- History -- 20th century
- African American women
- African American women -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans
- African Americans -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- History -- Pictorial works
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- African Americans -- Social conditions | History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- African Americans in art
- African Americans in art -- 20th century
- History
- Pictorial works
- Postcards
- Postcards -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- 1900-1999
- African American families
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial LibraryBorrow it901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, 20001, US38.8986949 -77.0247823
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Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) LibraryBorrow it1630 7th St. NW, Washington, DC, 20001, US38.9123733 -77.022493
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