A Day on the Bay: Postcard Views of the Chesapeake - Hardcover

Smith, Bert; Smith, Anthea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801868572 ISBN 13: 9780801868573

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Synopsis

A delightful companion to the popular postcards books Greetings from Baltimore and Down the Ocean, A Day on the Bay captures the color and charm of Chesapeake beach resorts, the legendary steamships that served them, and the beauty and recreation that give the "Land of Pleasant Living" its identity. Here are the Emma Giles and the Bay Belle, generations apart, steaming to Tolchester and Betterton beaches; the elegant City of Norfolk departing Baltimore harbor for the overnight trip to Newport News; sailboats plying the waters of the lower Bay, midshipmen parading in Annapolis, and amusement piers at Chesapeake Beach and Ocean View teeming with revelers.

Accompanied by Bert and Anthea Smith's engaging account of Chesapeake life and lore, the postcards document places and experiences that have all but faded into history yet remain fond and vivid memories for generations of residents and visitors. As in the previous books, the Smiths have chosen postcards for aesthetic as well as historic interest. Some are individually hand colored, and many display photographic tricks or unique design elements―making them far more evocative than mere snapshots. From the Susquehanna Flats to Capes Charles and Henry, A Day on the Bay preserves a wealth of Chesapeake history in beautiful and colorful detail.

Praise for Down the Ocean:

"A nostalgic vintage Technicolor postcard trip to the fabled ocean resorts of Maryland and Delaware and summers past... Smith has included in his wonderful retrospective a number of postcard whimsies, such as a nighttime view of the Ocean City boardwalk from the Coast Guard station."―Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun

Praise for Greetings from Baltimore:"Reproductions of hand-tinted cards and a witty companion text wrap Baltimore history and postcard-art history into a series of engaging vignettes."― Baltimore Magazine

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From the Publisher

Praise for Down the Ocean:

"A nostalgic vintage Technicolor postcard trip to the fabled ocean resorts of Maryland and Delaware and summers past . . . Smith has included in his wonderful retrospective a number of postcard whimsies, such as a nighttime view of the Ocean City boardwalk from the Coast Guard station."—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun

Praise for Greetings from Baltimore:

“Reproductions of hand-tinted cards and a witty companion text wrap Baltimore history and postcard-art history into a series of engaging vignettes.”—Baltimore Magazine

About the Author

Bert Smith, a graphic designer who has worked in print and television for more than thirty years, teaches in the School of Communications Design at the University of Baltimore. He has been the recipient of design and typography awards from the New York Art Director's Club, Print Magazine, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Graphic Design: USA, and the Printing Industries of America. His other collections of vintage postcards, Greetings from Baltimore and Down the Ocean, are also available from Johns Hopkins. Anthea Smith is an award-winning painter and the author of Finding the Charm in Charm City with photographer Huguette May. Her early professional experiences include work as a graphic artist, a production manager, and the vice president of an advertising agency in Baltimore. She attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art, earning a certificate in Fine Arts in Painting in 1987. Bert and Anthea Smith live in the historic mill neighborhood of Hampden in Baltimore.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0801868572
• ISBN 13: 9780801868573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96