Hot Springs Arkansas In Vintage Postcards

Author : Ray Hanley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439615276
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Springs, Arkansas in Vintage Postcards written by Ray Hanley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1998-11-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1890s to the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Early in the century, Hot Springs was among the most noted resorts in the nation. Its Victorian wonders drew thousands of visitors to partake in the hot mineral waters that bubbled from the earth. In the words written on one card in 1910, "Many people of wealth are here from Chicago and New York. Uncle Billy went to the horse show ball at the Eastman Hotel with an ex-wife of a millionaire. Andrew Carnegie and young Jay Gould were at the ball." Showcased in this fascinating collection are over two hundred postcards from 1900 to 1960. The images are accompanied by the actual penned messages of visitors and extensively researched historical facts.

Author : Ray Hanley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738533827
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Springs, Arkansas in Vintage Postcards written by Ray Hanley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1890s to the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Early in the century, Hot Springs was among the most noted resorts in the nation. Its Victorian wonders drew thousands of visitors to partake in the hot mineral waters that bubbled from the earth. In the words written on one card in 1910, "Many people of wealth are here from Chicago and New York. Uncle Billy went to the horse show ball at the Eastman Hotel with an ex-wife of a millionaire. Andrew Carnegie and young Jay Gould were at the ball." Showcased in this fascinating collection are over two hundred postcards from 1900 to 1960. The images are accompanied by the actual penned messages of visitors and extensively researched historical facts.

Author : Ray Hanley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439611246
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Springs, Arkansas written by Ray Hanley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its rise in the 1800s until well into the twentieth century, Hot Springs was a famed resort known worldwide. The grand hotels and world-class bath houses that sprang up around the government-protected springs drew countless visitors, ranging from the famous and wealthy to those of humble means, all seeking the health and pleasure promised by the Spa City’s promoters. In the words of a railroad tourist guidebook from about 1910, “A stay at Hot Springs, be it ever so brief, always remains a pleasant memory afterward. It was the writer’s good fortune to spend a few days at this popular resort—not as an invalid, I am happy to say, but as a tourist—and I certainly never bathed in more delightful water than that which flows so abundantly from the hot springs of Arkansas. There is buoyancy, a magnetism about it that is simply indescribable.” Such has been the experience of countless visitors over the years. Readers will find much of the history of this storied resort in Hot Springs, Arkansas, which is profusely illustrated with vintage postcards and photographs, all carefully interpreted by the authors, Ray and Steven Hanley, with research assistance from Mark Blaeuer of the Hot Springs National Park staff.

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610754668
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wish You Were Here: Arkansas Postcard Past 1900-1925 (p) written by and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 431 examples of picture postcards offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Arkansans during the early part of the twentieth century.

Author : Ray Hanley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738508856
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Springs, Arkansas written by Ray Hanley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its rise in the 1800s until well into the twentieth century, Hot Springs was a famed resort known worldwide. The grand hotels and world-class bath houses that sprang up around the government-protected springs drew countless visitors, ranging from the famous and wealthy to those of humble means, all seeking the health and pleasure promised by the Spa City's promoters. In the words of a railroad tourist guidebook from about 1910, "A stay at Hot Springs, be it ever so brief, always remains a pleasant memory afterward. It was the writer's good fortune to spend a few days at this popular resort--not as an invalid, I am happy to say, but as a tourist--and I certainly never bathed in more delightful water than that which flows so abundantly from the hot springs of Arkansas. There is buoyancy, a magnetism about it that is simply indescribable." Such has been the experience of countless visitors over the years. Readers will find much of the history of this storied resort in Hot Springs, Arkansas, which is profusely illustrated with vintage postcards and photographs, all carefully interpreted by the authors, Ray and Steven Hanley, with research assistance from Mark Blaeuer of the Hot Springs National Park staff.

Author : Ray Hanley
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286604
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Springs written by Ray Hanley and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago Hot Springs, Arkansas, was a world-renown resort city. Today, the town remains the most unique city in Arkansas but with much of its Victorian-to-1950s views nearly unrecognizable. Hot Springs: Past and Present shows vividly the before and after of hundreds of sites, answering questions such as “What used to be on this corner?” and “What was here before it was a parking lot?” The answer to those questions is often an opulent hotel, a theater, a bathhouse, a gambling house, or a mansion. Fire destroyed many buildings, even more were demolished, and some sites remain not so unlike they used to be. Hot Springs: Past and Present makes a perfect walking companion for anyone visiting the town and wishing to learn more about this one-of-a-kind place through not only the photographs but also the informative text that provides a good overview of the town’s history.

Author : Marie Ling McDougal
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738508290
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mount Clemens, Bath City, U.S.A. written by Marie Ling McDougal and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Bath Era" of Mount Clemens is but a memory; however, that rich history still lives through the images on vintage postcards. The fabulous Park, Medea, Arethusa, Colonial, Clementine, Olympia, Eureka, and St. Joseph are among the bath houses featured here with the hotels that catered to the needs of their bathers. Travel back to the days when sipping water at the Springs, enjoying the thrills of Leap the Dips, and cruising the local waterways were normal pastimes.

Author : Ray Hanley
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531605483
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Springs written by Ray Hanley and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its rise in the 1800s until well into the twentieth century, Hot Springs was a famed resort known worldwide. The grand hotels and world-class bath houses that sprang up around the government-protected springs drew countless visitors, ranging from the famous and wealthy to those of humble means, all seeking the health and pleasure promised by the Spa City's promoters. In the words of a railroad tourist guidebook from about 1910, "A stay at Hot Springs, be it ever so brief, always remains a pleasant memory afterward. It was the writer's good fortune to spend a few days at this popular resort--not as an invalid, I am happy to say, but as a tourist--and I certainly never bathed in more delightful water than that which flows so abundantly from the hot springs of Arkansas. There is buoyancy, a magnetism about it that is simply indescribable." Such has been the experience of countless visitors over the years. Readers will find much of the history of this storied resort in Hot Springs, Arkansas, which is profusely illustrated with vintage postcards and photographs, all carefully interpreted by the authors, Ray and Steven Hanley, with research assistance from Mark Blaeuer of the Hot Springs National Park staff.

Author : Ray Hanley
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610750047
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place Apart written by Ray Hanley and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot Springs National Park was recognized nationally in 2010 when the U.S. Mint unveiled the design of the first quarter of 56 in a series called the America the Beautiful Quarters Program. In 1903 a Chicago magazine, The 400, told its upscale readers about Hot Springs, Arkansas. The article's author wrote, "I also perceive a Chicago-Hot Springs air line of macadamized highway, lined with meteoric automobiles ribboning off the 750 miles between the cities in a thousand or less minutes. The perspective is almost delirious." Such exuberant words are testimony to what Hot Springs, "a place apart," has been to the nation since the early European explorers found vapors rising from the thermal springs-47 of them from which a million gallons of 143-degree water flow each day. A Place Apart offers readers a balanced history in words and historic photographs of a unique locale in the state of Arkansas. The hot springs of what the Native Americans called Washita were on the national map of Pres. Thomas Jefferson when the United States acquired what would become Arkansas in the Louisiana Purchase of 1804. Congress created the Hot Springs Reservation in 1832-the first land that the federal government set aside for preservation-granting federal protection of the thermal waters, and renamed it Hot Springs National Park in 1921. This book provides a fascinating visual history of pioneers, wealthy barons, scoundrels, gamblers (including such frequent visitors as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano), colorful politicians, and the hundreds of thousands of people who came to the spa city in hopes of regaining their fleeting health. Also covered are such famous attractions as Oaklawn Park, a thoroughbred horse-racing track, and Bathhouse Row, with its eight turn-of-the-century historic buildings.

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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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