Daniel D. Arreola
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The Mexican Border Cities
Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality
By Daniel D. Arreola and James R. Curtis
The University of Arizona Press
Postcards from the Chihuahua Border
Revisiting a Pictorial Past, 1900s–1950s
The University of Arizona Press
Daniel D. Arreola’s Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a colorful and dynamic visual history of Mexico’s northern border. Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Arreola invites the reader to time travel, to revisit another era—the first half of the last century—when the border towns of Ciudad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas were framed and made popular through picture postcards.
- Copyright year: 2019
Postcards from the Sonora Border
Visualizing Place Through a Popular Lens, 1900s–1950s
The University of Arizona Press
Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as centers of commerce and as tourist destinations. Postcards from the Sonora Border reveals how images—in this case the iconic postcard—shape the way we experience and think about place. Making use of his personal collection of historic images, Daniel D. Arreola captures the evolution of Sonoran border towns, creating a sense of visual “time travel” for the reader. Supported by maps and visual imagery, the author shares the geographical and historical story of five unique border towns—Agua Prieta, Naco, Nogales, Sonoyta, and San Luis Río Colorado.
Postcards from the Baja California Border
Portraying Townscape and Place, 1900s–1950s
The University of Arizona Press
Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery—the vintage postcard—to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.
- Copyright year: 2021
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