by: Lee Allen
TUCSON, Ariz. - How serendipitous is this? A husband and wife who deal in out-of-print books, prints and postcards attend an Arizona Historical Society convention and set up their booth right next to a history book publishing company that specializes in ''postcard history'' books.
The result is ''Native Americans of Arizona,'' 225 postcard images from the 1,500-postcard collection of Tucsonans Paul and Kathleen Nickens crafted into book form by Arcadia Publishing to offer a wide-ranging overview of the rich imagery of Native people in Arizona in the early 1900s.
''Picture postcards were used by promoters like the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad to sell the Southwest. Travelers came from the East, where they got on a train at one end and traveled on that train car to the other end visiting designated tourist stops in Arizona and New Mexico, where they took side trips to buy postcards and picture books to validate their trip,'' said Paul Nickens, an archaeologist specializing in the American Southwest who now sells Southwestern collectibles (www.SabinoBooks.com).
''This focuses on Arizona's 21 tribes and nations and is a pictorial walk-through of the history of the first half of the 21st century,'' he said. ''There are images in here that are real gems, probably not seen elsewhere, that couldn't be replicated today. Some of these images were spontaneous, some posed, and if you look at them with a critical eye, you'll see the details of the time.''
There's more here: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096415452
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