South Dakota In Vintage Postcards: 1900-1930 (SD) (Postcard History Series) - Softcover

Richard L. Popp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738518778 ISBN 13: 9780738518770

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

Postcards provide an easy way to go back in time to the early days of South Dakota, to see what the place looked like, to catch a glimpse of how people saw themselves, to begin to understand what has changed and what remains constant. This is the first book to focus entirely on historical postcards from South Dakota, including images from more than 50 counties and 100 different communities.

The book also explores how postcard images helped create and perpetuate myths about the "Wild West," and how South Dakotans accepted and adapted those myths. Included are scenes of farming, ranching, industry, and small-town life from the early-1900s. While postcards pictured busy streets, town festivals, and new civic improvements, they also captured periodic disasters-natural and man made. Postcards show the development of important tourist sites from their earliest years, including the Black Hills, Badlands, Corn Palace and Mount Rushmore. Residents and tourists alike will enjoy seeing South Dakota before interstates and billboards took over.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard L. Popp is a history instructor at Capital University Center in Pierre, and served for four years as state archivist of South Dakota. A native of Montana, he currently resides in Highmore with his wife Wendy and far too many Siamese cats.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0738518778
• ISBN 13: 9780738518770
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128