Handpainted in soft colors, postmarks still visible, old postcards offer views of scenes both familiar and removed. Like family photographs, they evoke memories of a happy time gone by and like family photographs, they remind us of what's changed. Collecting more than 158 richly colored postcards from the past, "Greetings from Baltimore" provides an entertaining, nostalgic, occasionally ironic, always changing view of the best of Baltimore, from about 1905 to 1955. Here are steamboats along the old Pratt Street piersthe ...
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Handpainted in soft colors, postmarks still visible, old postcards offer views of scenes both familiar and removed. Like family photographs, they evoke memories of a happy time gone by and like family photographs, they remind us of what's changed. Collecting more than 158 richly colored postcards from the past, "Greetings from Baltimore" provides an entertaining, nostalgic, occasionally ironic, always changing view of the best of Baltimore, from about 1905 to 1955. Here are steamboats along the old Pratt Street piersthe inner harbor that H. L. Mencken remembered as "so rotten, it smelled like a billion polecats"; the now defunct department stores at Howard and Lexington Streets; the Italianate Bromo Seltzer tower topped with the revolving blue bottle that had to be removed in 1936; the Patterson Park pagoda; the Shot Tower; Memorial Stadium in its shiny 1954 modernity and old, wooden Municipal Stadium, its predecessor; well-known restaurants and bars that have disappeared, like the famous Miller Brothers, Jimmy Wu's New China Inn, and Benny's, shown here full of servicemen and girls in 1945; long-gone amusement parks like Gwynn Oak, Carlin's, and the earlier Electric Park; and, of course, the Block. "Creatively colored and not simply reproduced from photographs, old postcards are genuine pieces of American folk art. More than that, they are reminders of a world that no longer exists. Many sites shown here, like the old Baltimore Post Office, are long gone, and the city is poorer for their loss. Others, like Camden Station, have been resurrected and adapted to new uses. Whether you have deep roots in this wonderful city, or are visiting it for the first time, I bring you "Greetings from Baltimore"-- "from the Preface"
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Add this copy of Greetings From Baltimore: Scenes of the City's Colorful to cart. $2.92, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Add this copy of Greetings From Baltimore: Scenes of the City's Colorful to cart. $5.05, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
Add this copy of Greetings From Baltimore: Scenes of the City to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by Kurtis A Phillips rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Roswell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Long 8vo. Signed by Author(s) Thin red-orange-boards hardback chuck-full of old postcards with a dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. Signed on a blank page in blue ink and with absolutely no further inscription, by the Baltimore-based graphic designer/author. Only flaw observed; extreme sun-fade to top edges of the boards. What would Baltimore be like if not for the Bromo-Seltzer Tower. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.
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Add this copy of Greetings From Baltimore: Postcard Views of the City to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Johns Hopkins University Press,.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0801855349. Color illustrations throughout. First printing. SIGNED by the author. Near fine in a near fine (two short closed slits on rear panel) dust jacket.
