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01893aam a2200265 i 4500 001 22EFA6FCE17011EC82262A731FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220601010025 008 210327t20212021enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1789144841 020 $a 9781789144840 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a NC1872 $b .P96 2021 082 04 $a 741.683 $2 23 100 1 $a Pyne, Lydia, $e author. 245 10 $a Postcards : $b the rise and fall of the world's first social network / $c Lydia Pyne. 264 1 $a London, UK : $b Reaktion Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 232 pages : $b illustrations (some colour) ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Invention and Reinvention -- Signed, Stamped, and Delivered -- The Means of Mass Production -- Publicity and Propaganda -- Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here -- Postcards from Countries That No Longer Exist -- Conclusion: The Afterlives of Postcards. 520 8 $a Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they have been made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. Historically, postcards' innovation and significance was their ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally, postcards are about creating personal connections: links between people, places and beliefs. In this book Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artefacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art and culture. In doing so, she shows us that postcards were the first global social network, and how here, in the twenty-first century, postcards are not yet extinct. 650 0 $a Postcards $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220601010218.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=22EFA6FCE17011EC82262A731FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search