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title	:	Was This Heaven? : A Self-portrait of Iowa On Early Postcards : a Selection of Postcards From the David A. Wilson Collection Bur Oak Original
author	:	Henry, Lyell D.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877455201
print isbn13	:	9780877455202
ebook isbn13	:	9781587291098
language	:	English
subject	Iowa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, Iowa--Pictorial works, Postcards--Iowa.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	F622.H46 1995eb
ddc	:	977.7
subject	:	Iowa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, Iowa--Pictorial works, Postcards--Iowa.

Page i Was This Heaven? A Bur Oak Original

Page iii Was This Heaven? A Self-Portrait of Iowa on Early Postcards A Selection of Postcards from the David A. Wilson Collection Lyell D. Henry, Jr. University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1995 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design by Richard Hendel No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. The postcards on pages 70, 74, 88, 95, 108, 128, 140, 147, 148, 152, 169, 193, 215, 219, and 232 are reproduced courtesy of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Henry, Lyell D. Was this heaven? a self-portrait of Iowa on early postcards/by Lyell D. Henry, Jr. p. cm. (A Bur oak original) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-520-1 (cloth) 1. Iowa Social life and customs Pictorial works. 2. Iowa Pictorial works. 3. Postcards Iowa. I. Title. II. Series. F622.H46 1995 977.7 dc2095-17620 CIP 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 C 5 4 3 2 1

Page v Contents Preface vii Greetings from Iowa! 1 1 Hawkeyes 13 2 The Kind We Raise 47 3 Everything's Up to Date in River City 79 4 How We Do Things 115 5 Booster Days 149 6 Big News 173 7 Keeping 'Em Down on the Farm 195 8 'Til the Boys Come Home 237 References 251 Index of Towns 253

Page vii Preface The images in this book depict Iowa and Iowans during the years 1905 through 1919 and are taken from photographic postcards made in those years. Although I supplied a handful of these postcards from my own collection and obtained another fifteen from the collection of the State Historical Society of Iowa, most came from the collection of David A. Wilson of Waterloo, Iowa. So rich and ample is the Wilson collection that I often found it difficult to make choices and, very reluctantly, had to pass by at least as many superb postcards as I settled upon. Another person in my

Page viii place could easily have made a quite different selection. I am confident, however, that the postcards chosen do represent accurately the flavor and subject matter found in a very large portion of those early photographic postcards. In the captions accompanying the images, words enclosed in quotation marks are taken directly from inscriptions sometimes the photographer's but usually the sender's found on the postcards. It is often impossible to determine exactly the years of origin of photographic postcards, and since all in this book fall within such a brief period (in fact, most are confined to the even briefer span of 1905 through 1916), I have not specified actual or estimated dates in the captions. I do include the locations of the images whenever known. Principally concerned to find postcards that revealed interesting things about Iowans and everyday life in Iowa in the opening years of this century, I made no systematic effort to maximize the number of Iowa towns included in my selection or to achieve balance among regions of the state. However, the Index of Towns shows that, in fact, many towns are included and that all parts of the state have at least some representation.

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