Prairie Fires & Paper Moons: Photographic Postcards from the First Two Decades of the 20th Century

Tornados, prairie fires and moonshiners balance civic pride, classrooms and enlistment portraits in this touching photographic account of life in a much slower time. This collection of postcard images records events of 1900-1920 in America; faithfully collected by postcard archivists Hal Morgan and Andreas Brown. These are images from the outposts of rural life, small runs of unique events that offer the past with a remarkable immediacy. The images dominate, a 10-page introduction is supplemented by explanatory captions. This book will "transfix anyone with an interest in American history, postcards or photography."