Author: Michael Lesy

Publisher/Date: New Press, 1997

ISBN: 9781565843820

Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book is in fine condition; dustjacket is near fine, lightly rubbed, 207 pages

Description: At the turn of the 20th century, renowned landscape photographer William Henry Jackson joined the Detroit Publishing Company to produce a series of superb postcard images spanning every state and subject across the United States. That photographic record, now in the collections of the Library of Congress and the Colorado Historical Society, is this basis of this profound visual history of America on the cusp of the modern world. Michael Lesy has selected 200 black and white images, made on the best photographic equipment available at the time, to evoke an era of seemingly limitless opportunity, countered by headlines underlining the struggles of the times.