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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Postcards"”.
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Architectural postcards and the conception of place : mediating cultural experience
By radically altering accessibility to architectural images, the postcard has promoted the dissemination of diverse values and ideas that both mediate and are mediated by the cultural experience of architecture and place. This symbiotic process is explored by examining different types of …
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Travelling Miniatures: Kerry and Co’s Postcards of the Pacific, 1893-1917
This thesis examines postcards of Pacific peoples that were produced in Sydney by the photographic firm Kerry & Co. during the first decade of the twentieth century. Like other visual images and technologies of that period, postcards have played an important role in shaping contemporary …
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Postcards from the blue heart : landscape change In the Dutch lowlands
The Green Heart is an agricultural area situated in the center of the Randstad, a metropolis in the Western Netherlands. Like the rest of Holland, it is a constructed landscape. The region is facing twin challenges: the need to make room for water as a strategy to deal with climate change, and the …
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A Postcard, Or Something Like It
Postcards highlight the most invigorating, awesome and memorable aspects of events and places. They serve as mementos to be shared or as a testament to experience, proof that "I was here." While postcards were most widely used at the turn of the 20th century, they are quickly being outmoded by the …
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The Idealised and the Profane Nun: The Image of the Nun at the Fin-de-Siècle and into the 1930s.
… into the 1930s, in the popular medium of postcards, in art during the Modernist period, and throughout the early development of film. The thesis demonstrates how secularisation, rapid technological development, and political discourse during the selected era impacted the image of the nun. …
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Helping Students Help Themselves: An Intervention to Facilitate Campus Food Pantry Use at a Public University
… led to the evaluative decision that using postcards alone is an ineffective way to increase campus food pantry use. Future inquiries should explore the effectiveness of other communication mediums such as texts, emails, and letters alone and in combination with postcards—especially …
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Trembling Earth
… woodblock prints, scenic wallpapers, vintage postcards and Victorian mourning pictures. My regional explorations span the James River, Tidewater swamps and architecture within the city of Richmond.My work depicts local history and ecology inspired by Richmond and the surrounding region. Subtle …
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Dinner For One
… in Dinner for One and the prose poems written as postcards to oneself an others reinforce the notion of travel. The fortunes from Chinese cookies give prophecies and horoscopes, reminding us of our fate, which is beyond our conrol. Dinner For One means to question, through poetry and interactive, …
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A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of the Hillbilly Stereotype
… with an analysis of early twentieth-century postcards, this study establishes the foundational elements of the hillbilly archetype as a symptom of class-based prejudice and explores how these key elements are visible in online memes, with particular attention to the genre of 'Trump Voter' …
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THE POETRY OF RONALD DUNCAN
… years, from 1939 to 1977. His first publication, Postcards to Pulcinella (c1939), exemplifies his early experimentation with form. His next, and first Faber publication, The Mongrel (1950), is notable for its diversity of form and theme, and develops a greater awareness of European poetic …
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Rural Acceptance of the Nurse Practitioner
… over a four week survey period with reminder postcards mailed to each survey recipient one week after the initial mailing. The return rate was 32% (N = 267). Respondents were asked if they would allow a specially trained nurse practitioner to perform 12 specific functions, of which 4 were …
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Relief Is the Thing with Teeth
… Mel gone missing, but Cat’s receiving strange postcards from her absent mother, and her fixation with Jonnie has taken an insidious turn. As suspicions wrench Vera and Cat further and further away from each other, the girls must decide what they’re willing to do to protect one another, even if …
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Mandela, Massachusetts: Design Futures for a Proposed City
… Spring 2021, I designed realistic posters, postcards and stickers about Mandela, and disseminated them in public spaces across Greater Roxbury. All pieces have a QR code linked to a visioning survey that gives participants the opportunity to imagine what Mandela could be. The thesis starts …
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From Military Express to Free Delivery: the Postal History of Des Moines, Iowa
… postal rates, postage stamps, stationery, and postcards) played a greater role in everyday life than urban historians have heretofore indicated. And surviving examples of early Des Moines covers (envelopes) and letters prove that postal efforts to unite the city with the greater American …
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La imagen fotográfica del patrimonio monumental declarado en La Rioja hasta 1936. El Fondo Fotográfico del Instituto de Estudios Riojanos
… systematically reproduced in the illustrated postcards published at the time. Finally, it highlights the role of this type of architectural images as documents and sources of the first order for the study of the conservation and restoration of monumental heritage.
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The Power of Images in the Age of Mussolini
… figurative references displayed on state-issued postcards, medals, and stamps. This study of quotidian - often ephemeral - objects, fundamental in any archeological analysis, underscores not only the scope of the iconography and its audiences, but also the extent to which the minor arts, along …
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Learning for a Lifetime: Motivations for Lifelong Learning in the Life of Evelyn McQueen Cook.
… information was collected through photographs, postcards, letters, and certificates. Findings were presented thematically within a chronological context.</p><p>The importance of family, formal educational opportunities, the influence of teachers, the opportunity to travel extensively, …
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Transnational Market and Community: The Social Relations of Kaqchikel Maya Vendors
… tourism sites. They are the subjects of postcards, guidebooks, and tourism brochures. Most often they are the only Mayas with whom tourists meet and interact. These vendors work and live most often within a tourism borderzone where Guatemalan state hegemony and national identity are weak …
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A People's War: The Transformation of German Politics, 1913-1918
… of the war: the food riots in 1915, postcards, celebrations of the ""common people"" in wartime, and the ultimate collapse of the Wilhelmine monarchy in November 1918, which in many respects was a revolutionary re-manifestation of the themes and images of August 1914."
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