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In 1900, Buffalo was the eighth largest city in the U.S. As the world ushered in the new century, Buffalo celebrated its status as a vibrant center for transportation, commerce, and industry and became home for thousands of immigrants who chose to begin their new lives in this promising City by the Lake.
Postcards erupted on the scene around 1907, a short-lived product of the collision of emerging print technologies and existing postal regulations. This lovely book offers a fascinating and historically accurate glimpse of Buffalo's Main Street at the turn of the last century through postcard scenes. These views of downtown reveal Buffalo as one of the most progressive and vibrant cities of the time.
How fitting that postcards, made popular during Buffalo's heyday, should pave the way through the city's illustrious past. Perhaps they also provide valuable clues for directions in which Buffalo's beautiful downtown could and should develop a century hence, rising from the ashes to emerge once again as a vital, vibrant hub for the entire region.
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Jeremy Matches
reviewed Postcard Views: A Walk Down Main Street, Buffalo, New York, 1910 on June 13, 2010
Postcard Views: A Walk Down Main Street, Buffalo, New York, 1910
Like many of these collections of photos from this fine publisher, it's a mixed bag, and I'm glad to have it.
This volume is heavy on the portrait photos of Atlanta residents, helpfully indexed with structures with which they worked. Photos of the city's defenses are quite moving. At end, there are photos of wreck and ruin.
I have several favorite images here. Across six pages (pages 10-15), there is a three-part panorama taken from the dome of the Atlanta Female Institute. The Crawford, Frazer & Co. slave market appears (page 100) in a photo by Barnard; recently, the AJC put it side-by-side with an image of modern Five Points MARTA station. These sort of before and after shots are outside the scope of this book, but so compelling.
Author Michael Rose uses Atlanta History Center archival collections to good effect, as usual.
I do recommend reading a narrative history to complement this stuff, for example, The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta, by Marc Wortman (here, )
Recommended.
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