Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:24:15 -0500 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Not strictly limited to architectural history - there most certainly is the
archaeology of still standing structures and the use of such documents as
part of the archival record. Additionally, postcards etc. are wonderful
when studied anthropologically - as in one particular state and city where a
Confederate monument is prominent in postcards just after the war between
the states but progressively recedes far into the background in latter years
until it is almost invisible.
Stephen P. Austin
-----Original Message-----
From: William & Irene J. Henry [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 7:19 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Postal increase dates
Bob Schulyler wrote:
"Post cards are a very important source for historical archaeology of the
late 19th (looking backwards) and 20th centuries, especially the earlier
local images of stores, home, street scapes and public buildings."
Funny, where I come from this is not historical archaeology but
architectural history...
Irene Jackson Henry, RA, NCARB
|
|
|