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Geographers have long recognized the power of visual media to construct enduring place identities (Tuan 1976; Schwartz and Ryan 2003; Schnell and Reese 2014). Journal of Historical Geography 18 (1): 27-40. The massive tree and miniaturized slogan work together to proclaim this sequoia as the worlds biggest, establishing this national park as the root of an American national identity grounded in monumental nature (Nash 2014; Runte 2010). Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination. The federal governments centennial program, including the NPSs signature event An Evening at the Arch; Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthornes The Future of Americas National Parks report to President Bush; and President Obamas Fathers Day address established new directions for the parks. What emerges is a moral geography, where postwar middle-class recreation is privileged (Spence 1996; Jacoby 2001). Editing Nature in Grand Canyon National Park Postcards. Thanks to national park protections, the backdrop of evergreens no longer holds value as a rich source of timber (Cronon 1983). Each postcard includes a fact about the park on the back for an educational and inspiring collection. to save this product to your wish list. Delyser, D. 2004. Dittmer, J. The Badlands National Park postcard instructs viewers to Enjoy the Good Life. The Carlsbad Caverns postcard encourages viewers to Walk the Hall of Giants. Slogans and invitations like these offer a direct link between the viewer and the parks. ----------. - 4 x 6" standard postcard- Vibrant digital print on 16pt matte cardstock, ***Please select your park from the dropdown list - you cannot select a park byscrolling through the images.***. 2011. Such intertextual references reveal how national parks recreational landscapes can transcend park boundaries and engage with expanded American playgrounds.

Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. It is a Federal Copyright offense to reproduce or replicate these images without permission. We follow Blake (2008) and Youngs (2011) by recognizing that postcards must be examined holistically. TheNational Park Service as part of United States Department of the Interior is the authorizing agency. Social and Cultural Geography 5 (3): 347-355. Please try again later. Geographical Images of the American West: The View from Harpers Monthly, 1850-1900. 2010. Our analysis of the Anderson Design Group (ADG) postcard collection suggests three key findings. Youngs (2011), for example, finds that Grand Canyon postcards are edited to convey idealized images of place. Geographical Review 104 (2): 229-241. The water flows with enough force to splash upward and soak the bears underbellies. US Park Pass is an authorized reseller of the America the Beautiful - the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass. Many of these postcards explicitly depict people at play. Katmai National Park presents an untrammeled and dynamic nature, where fluvial and biological processes intertwine and continue unabated. In Western Places, American Myths: How We Think About the West, edited by G. Hausladen, 296-318. In the following sections, we examine how selected postcards exemplify a particular theme of the national parks. Fifty-Nine Parks More about Fifty-Nine Parks, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. We embraced the complexities of postcards by considering each as an individual work of art, understood and interpreted holistically for the collections major themes.

Uniquely Designed National Park Postcards, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Postcard, Gates of the Arctic National Park Postcard, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Postcard, Great Smoky Mountain National Park Postcard, Use left/right arrows to navigate the slideshow or swipe left/right if using a mobile device, choosing a selection results in a full page refresh. This is where youll see your current point status and your earned rewards. Produced in an artistic style reminiscent of classic Works Progress Administration (WPA) promotional imagery, the postcards were tacitly approved by the NPS and made available in national park stores. The use of the charismatic fauna in national park imagery suggests a form of American national identity bound to natural resources and a wilderness experience (Cronon 1995). These slogans promote a set of activities deemed proper in park landscapes.

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Two symbols of a mythic American West hold primary positions in the image. We are experiencing technical difficulties. The American West: The Invention of a Myth. Lanham: Taylor Trade Publishing. Reno: University of Nevada Press.

Second, our content analysis of the postcards suggests four facets of national park place identity: 1) natures refuge; 2) Americas playground; 3) American heritage; and 4) mythic space. 2020 Amber Share. In North American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century, edited by C. Colton and G. Buckley, 251-271. Furthermore, Katmai and the other national parks postcards convey a distinctly American nature. Valued as collectors items, souvenirs, and a means of correspondence, postcards remain available at many tourist waypoints, including gas-stations, museums, or national park gift stores. Yosemite National Park - Half Dome - Vintage Postcard, Redwood National Park California Vintage Postcard, Grand Canyon National Park Vintage Travel Postcard, Zion National Park Utah The Narrows Vintage Postcard, Grand Canyon National Park Arizona Vintage Postcard, Vintage Zion National Park Travel Postcard, Joshua Tree National Park Tule Springs Vintage Postcard, Zion National Park Vintage Travel Postcard, Olympic National Park Washington State Vintage Postcard, Death Valley National Park Vintage Postcard, Yellowstone National Park Vintage Postcard, Channel Islands National Park California Vintage Postcard, Badlands National Park Landscape Vintage Postcard, Everglades National Park Florida Flamingo Vintage Postcard, Canyonlands National Park Utah Vintage Postcard, Bryce Canyon National Park Utah Vintage Postcard, Great Smoky Mountains National Park Vintage Postcard, Moraine Lake Banff National Park Canada Vintage Postcard, Grand Teton National Park Wyoming Vintage Postcard, Mount Rainier National Park Washington Vintage Postcard, Glacier Bay National Park Alaska Vintage Postcard, Pinnacles National Park California Vintage Postcard, Haleakala National Park Maui Hawaii Vintage Postcard, Bryce Canyon National Park Vintage Travel Postcard, Vintage Yellowstone National Park Buffalo Postcard, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Vintage Postcard, Arches National Park - Vintage Delicate Arch Postcard, Saguaro National Park Arizona Vintage Postcard, Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado Elk Vintage Postcard, Olympic National Park Washington Vintage Postcard, Mammoth Cave National Park Kentucky Vintage Postcard, North Cascades National Park Washington Vintage Postcard, Denali National Park Alaska Mount Hunter Vintage Postcard, Yosemite National Park - Vintage Travel postcard, Redwoods National Park California Vintage Travel Postcard, Glacier National Park Montana Vintage Postcard, Sequoia National Park Giant Sequoia Trees Vintage Postcard, National Parks of The United States List Vintage Postcard, Haleakala National Park Hawaii Vintage Postcard, Cuyahoga Valley National Park Ohio Vintage Postcard, Acadia National Park Vintage Travel Postcard, Channel Islands National Park California Vintage Postcard, Vintage Yellowstone National Park Travel Postcard, Crater Lake National Park Oregon Vintage Postcard, Kings Canyon National Park California Vintage Postcard, Big Bend National Park Chihuahuan Desert Vintage Postcard, Zion National Park Vintage Poster Postcard, Lassen Volcanic National Park California Vintage Postcard, Carlsbad Caverns National Park Vintage Postcard, Petrified Forest National Park Arizona Vintage Postcard, Arches National Park Double Arch Night Sky Vintage Postcard, Vintage American National Parks Collage Postcard, Black Canyon Of The Gunnison National Park Vintage Postcard, North Cascades National Park Mount Triumph Vintage Postcard, White Sands National Park New Mexico Vintage Postcard. Through invoking the Florida Keys toponym, Biscayne becomes linked with a popular vacation destination. In A Geography of Beer, edited by M. Patterson and N. Hoalst-Pullen, 167-187. These two definitions inform our identification of heritage in the centennial postcards through emphasizing their ability to depict American cultural landscapes and ideologies of exceptionalism. The whole postcard is greater than the sum of its parts.

2014. These include revamping outdated and overused park infrastructure, increasing diversity and inclusion, and addressing the consequences of climate change.

The exotic fish and turtle give reasons as to why the diver has chosen Biscayne. To do so, we identify how features in ADGs collection help construct a particular theme. These materials are critical sources shaping popular understandings of the national parks. To redeem, copy and paste the code during the checkout process. The bears intense focus and raw power are subtly captured in how they hunch over the water, muscles tense as they wait, poised, to snap their jaws shut on prey. Meanings of Place and Aspects of the Self: An Interdisciplinary and Empirical Account. 1995. National parks become sites where people can enjoy recreating in some of the countrys most spectacular places. Ponterotto, J.G.

At the postcards top, a slogan instructs viewers to Visit Beautiful Acadia National Park, Maine. The eye, however, is first drawn to a tall-masted schooner with a crowded deck. Hanging above them is the slogan See Kolob Arch. Clouds shaped like undiscovered continents are blazoned across an evening sky. 2009. The Local Traveler: Farming, Food, and Place in State and Provincial Tourism Guides, 1993-2008. Memories and Place: Geographies of a Critical Relationship. Cronon, W. 1983. A colorful and funny national park one star review illustration postcard, perfect for the national parks lover in your life! Use these creative cards to put your own stamp on your shared travelsor simply collect these quaint treasures for yourself. The fishes bright colors and scattered arrangement across the images foreground draws the eye like thrown confetti. In particular, we examine a series of commemorative centennial postcards produced by the private studio Anderson Design Group. Spence, M. 1996. Reno: University of Nevada Press. Environmental historians and historical geographers have long recognized the role of nature in consolidating a sense of American national identity (Cronon 1995). Imagining Heaven and Earth at the Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado. ----------. The waterfall falling over the cliffs on the viewers right suggests that springtime has arrived in the Utah desert. By clicking SIGN UP,I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random Houses, Editor's Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy. The postcard of Saguaro National Park leverages symbolism and a singular color palette to develop a sense of a mythic landscape (Figure 5). 2005. Visual media are cultural texts, conveying dominant ideologies through reproducing selective visions of place (Pritchard and Morgan 2003). They also thank the services and comments of two anonymous reviewers and editor Dr. Michael Steinberg: all offered valuable insights during the revisions process. The Emergence of Standardized, Idealized, and Placeless Landscapes in Midwestern Main Street Postcards. A third significant theme is that of a distinct American heritage. Second, there are the parks eponymous saguaros. Brief Note on the Origins, Evolution, and Meaning of Qualitative Thick Description. Intent on their task, the bears fix their eyes on the water. Graham (2002) suggests heritage is defined best as contemporary use of the past, while Johnson (1999) calls heritage an ideological framing of identity. Their utility and popularity may also be explained by postcards material form and the implications it has for social memory. We felt our initial quantitative approach failed to capture the greater themes embedded in the collection. The fishes muscular bodies twist in effort as they try to make their way up the fast-flowing rapids. Journal of Cultural Geography 28 (2): 281-309. We initially reviewed the entire collection to develop a general understanding of the collections content. This theme primarily taps into deeply rooted wilderness attitudes towards nature and affirms popularly entrenched assumptions that humans and nature are separate and oppositional entities (Cronon 1995). Its rich green stands in stark contrast to the burnt hues of the sandstone cliffs. Instead, they become part of a larger Acadian landscape aesthetic, one that can be consumed by those seeking beauty on Maines coastline. Our research showcases the importance of twenty-first century postcard analysis. These themes are manifested through ADGs use of charismatic North American wildlife and images of wilderness; depictions of outdoor recreation and use of inviting slogans; representations of American cultural landscapes; and adept use of iconic images and application of light and color. The postcard image of Sequoia National Park is the strongest example of this phenomenon (Figure 4). And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week. On Grand Canyon Postcards. Captain Americas Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post-9/11 Geopolitics. create an account The beholding eye of the postcard viewer cannot help but be drawn to the bear in the foreground, depicted here a split second before capturing a leaping fish. Greetings From: 24 Vintage-Style Postcards of National Parks Across America. ----------. In doing so, however, we confronted the lesson cultural geographers are careful to remember in exploring representations of place through content analysis: conflating features for meaning (Schnell 2011). Your review requires staff approval before posting. Across the bottom of the image the postcard proclaims that Biscayne National Park is in the Florida Keys. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 66 (2): 266-276. The association between the Florida Keys and Biscayne, meanwhile, introduces an intertextual element to what it means to be in Biscayne National Park. Through light, color, and shadow, the sky, water, bears, and fish are all imbued with a sense of movement. Crown of the Continent, Backbone of the World: The American Wilderness Ideal and Blackfeet Exclusion from Glacier National Park. Instead, they project idealized and selective visions of place, where their images are edited for particular meanings. Mythic Geographies of Representation and Identity: Contemporary Postcards of Wales.

The Acadia National Park postcard resurrects historically significant Maine industries, but transforms them to reflect what is valuable about Acadias contemporary park landscape. The Acadia National Park and Sequoia National Park postcards depict historically significant objects and sites and serve as strong examples of American heritage. Please login or New Haven: Yale University Press. The backdrop to these western icons also shaped our contemplation of the scene. Studies within geography predominantly use historical postcards as their source materials (Pritchard and Morgan 2003).

Indulge in a little vintage whimsy with this post card set. Just for joining youll get personalized recommendations on your dashboard daily and features only for members. Postcards are not neutral representations of the places they depict. The American Southwests Monument Valley, for example, has been cited as a mythic landscape par excellence (Blake 2014). Our analysis reveals four themesnatures refuge, Americas playground, American heritage, and mythic spacethat collectively anchor national park place identity. London: IB Tauris. One can imagine their frenetic and desperate movements as they launch themselves into air. From landscape paintings (Allen 1992) and magazine illustrations (Wyckoff and Nash 1994) to beer labels (Schnell and Reese 2014) and comic books (Dittmer 2005), visual media in their myriad forms articulate selective visions of place. Yellowstone National Park, the Every Kid in a Park initiative, President Obamas Fathers Day visit to No less significant is what goes unsaid by these slogans. Buy. Select one of our locations. See our Terms of Use for details. Human absence reveals the national parks as a last bastion of wild nature. We define place identity as the collective understandings of places contributing to a sense of shared belonging (Blake 2008; Antonsich 2010). Hoelscher, S. and D. Alderman. Comprised of fifty-nine postcards, the Anderson Design collection presents rich visual imagery of each national park. To experience Biscayne is also to engage with the Florida Keys and partake of its recreational amenities for adventurous tourists and snowbirds. Hausladen, G. 2003. Those postcards demonstrating mythic space feature heavy use of symbolic figures and iconography.

Many postcards also include slogans or invitations to the viewer. DeBres, K. and J. Sowers. Political Geography 18 (2): 187-207. Making Mythic Landscapes. Journal of the West 33 (3): 10-21. Blake, K. 1995. Myths are integral to many cultural landscapes. The bowl of golden sky pours through Kolob Arch. Four Symbolic Boundaries of the American West. The Professional Geographer 61 (2): 216-230. 1994. Rider, saguaros, and desert are arrayed on a deeper tableau. Heritage as Knowledge: Capital or Culture? Postcards most representative of this theme depict charismatic wildlife; images of pristine wilderness; powerful geologic and fluvial processes; and an absence of humans and human activity. Wilderness and the American Mind, 5th Edition. Tuan, Y.F. Lastly, we suggest these themes convey visions of the national parks that favor traditional attitudes towards nature and American identity, and consequently come into tension with alternative conceptualizations of the national parks. Acadias flora and fauna are thus transformed from industrial resource to aesthetic resource. Mythic space is the final dominant theme present in the centennial postcard collection, and all postcards laden with this theme showcase western landscapes and support the claim that the American West is arguably the most mythic ever created by a nation from its past (Murdoch 2001, quoted in Blake 2014 p. 261). By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Postcards (Blake 2008; Youngs 2011; Youngs 2012) also manufacture and project place identity. Rays of light illuminate a verdant pine forest. National Parks: The American Experience, 4th Edition. The vision of the national parks as natures refuge is the most prominent theme of the postcard collection. In 2016 the National Park Service (NPS) celebrated its 100th year of existence. As representative of the national park system, this postcard shapes wider perceptions of not only Kolob Arch and Zion, but also of Western landscapes more generally. 2003. Its rich color palette and framing of light through an arch helps tap into deeply held Judeo-Christian notions of the divine. Four significant themes emerged from our revised qualitative content analysis that understands postcards as shapers of national park place identity. Anderson Design Groups centennial postcards present narratives aligning with mainstream understandings of the national parks historical significance. 2011.

Its clean lines are framed by a backdrop of thick and continuous evergreens. In this image, whales remain the schooners goal, but the ships armament is no longer the whalemans harpoon, but rather the 21st century tourists camera. This view is from an impossible vantage point, for the images perspective simultaneously captures sights of the waters surface, the sky above, seabirds, and a small personal sailboat. Although these two narratives remain disconnected in key ways, we believe the tensions between Anderson Design Groups postcard collection and the federal governments centennial initiatives do not represent a lasting failure, but instead reveal opportunities for future reconciliation between promotion and policy. Jacoby, K. 2001. The interplay of shadow and light on the vegetation and water, the orange sky above, and the warm hues that highlight the bears richly textured hides all suggest a crepuscular scene moments before an unseen sun sinks below the horizon (Figure 1). Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. Most orders filled same day if placed by 3:00PM. Humanistic Geography. On a rocky cliff shoreline, Bass Head Harbor Lighthouse is immaculate. Historically significant use of park landscapes, including subsistence lifeways, are left out of the slogans narrative. Recovering Social Memories from the Past: the 1884 Novel Ramona and Tourist Practices in Turn-of-the-Century Southern California. Fifty-Nine Parks believes public lands and the art of printmaking are worth preserving. Myths are also intimately bound to place and are embedded in the material world just as much as in the terrain of the mind. The spawning fish and saturated blue of the fast-flowing river suggests a healthy riparian system, as does the rich and thick greenery lining the rivers banks. First, we employ content analysis to identify the postcards major themes. Geographical thinking encourages conceptualizations of myth that focus on landscape as much as metaphor. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. It cuts through calm green waters, angling for an advantageous position to view a whales tail breaking the surface. Biscayne is one of the few postcards to depict a waterscape. Environmental History 16 (1): 138-147. The wider landscape is a desert, affirming widespread understandings of aridity as a defining feature of the American West (Worster 1985; Wright 2014). Successfully marketed to a large audience, the postcards visual narrative shapes the meanings of national parks at the centennial.

Framed by two tree trunks reminiscent of the columns of a Greek temple, the General Sherman tree dominates the scene and towers high above a miniaturized person and station wagon. Promotions included An Evening at the Arch at Nash, R. 2014. You will be notified when your order is ready for pickup. Apr 27, 2021 Where the Cowboy Rides Away: Mythic Places for Western Film. GreetingsFrom: 24 Vintage-Style Postcards of National Parks Across Americaoffers 24 vintage-style postcards that map out the features of each national park and share the park's stats as well. Our subsequent examination recognized the importance of subjectivity in analysis. Like the image of Saguaro National Park, the Zion postcards mythic dimensions are strongest when its image is considered holistically. Suitable for mailing, framing, or using as gift tags, National Parks: Acadia, Arches, Denali, Everglades, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountain, Hawai'i Volcanoes, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, Yellowstone & Yosemite. Geographical Review 102 (4): 486-509. Discussions about precise definitions of heritage are numerous and oft-contested. The point of view is literally immersed in the water, revealing a subtropical reef, brightly colored and patterned fish, and a sea turtle. New York: Norton. All reviews become the property of Mast General Store. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 1 (2): 111-130. Visually centered on crepuscular rays streaming through iconic Kolob Arch, this scene draws on long established traditions of romanticism in depicting Western landscapes (Cronon 1995). Johnson, N. 1999. The postcard imbues a sense of playfulness into the scene through the use of subject matter, color, and intertextual associations with place. 2012. Schooners, for example, are anchors of the cultural landscapes of New England pelagic fishing industries and were popular 19th century whaling vessels. ----------. With respect to national parks, American exceptionalism is grounded in superlative landscape features (Runte 2010). The way these postcards frame place identity, however, offers only a partial picture of the federal governments larger twenty-first century vision for the national parks. They are known for their original poster art, which celebrates Americas National Parks and features the work of prominent artists from all around the world. All rights reserved. In the scenes backdrop, hazily outlined mountain silhouettes subtly mirror the skys shape above. Anderson Design Groups centennial postcard collection presents the national parks as 1) natures refuge; 2) Americas playground; 3) American heritage; and 4) mythic space. This article interrogates centennial promotion efforts to understand dominant place-based narratives associated with the national parks. Mythic space is also captured in the image of Zion National Park (Figure 6). ----------. Sign up for updates on the parks, tips for planning your trip and special offers and promotions. Wright, J. Journal of Cultural Geography 25 (1): 1-30. Framing the Past: Time, Space, and the Politics of Heritage Tourism in Ireland. Contemplating the full image may leave the viewer with a sense that this landscape retains power and agency that defies full human comprehension. Previous geographical postcard analyses inform our examination of the ADG postcard collection. Youngs, Y. This is not an official U.S. Government website. While the postcards achieve the task of celebrating and promoting the national parks, their success does not completely align with other park initiatives addressing the rapidly changing terrain of twenty-first century environmental, political, and social challenges facing the national parks. Postcards also have the ability to reach a geographically far-flung audience and shape how this audience understands places. Serving as souvenirs, postcards are small, easily stored linkages between places and people.

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