GALLERY EDITOR'S NOTE

摘要

In the Gallery essay for this issue of Environmental History, Yolonda Youngs takes us on a scenic tour of the Grand Canyon's south rim. Yet rather than interpret photographs of this iconic American landscape, Youngs instead analyzes a series of postcards that were manufactured between 1905 and 1938 to promote tourism at the canyon. In doing so, she traces an important evolution in the cultural meaning of this tourist destination. What began at the turn of the century as a campaign to publicize, through three different types of postcards, the cultural amenities, recreational opportunities, and scenic wonders of the Grand Canyon, evolved by 1938 into a more integrated publicity effort that blended, within each individual postcard, these three sets of attractions.