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John Pultz is curator of photography at the University of Kansas's Spencer Art Museum.
"Part photo-essay, part local history, and part social history, Our Town on the Plains is a useful tool to those who want a glimpse at life during the heyday of the small town, just before the changes in American society and commercial photography created a very different cultural landscape."--Western Historical Quarterly
"Shortridge arranges the photographs so that the reader is taken on a guided tour of the town and its environs. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but as every careful viewer knows, the trick is figuring out which words. Shortridge admirable tethers these community portraits to historical and geographical context."--Kansas History
"A tribute to all of the people who made small communities become a part of our larger collective history and mythology."--Great Plains Quarterly
"The book testifies to the importance of photography to local histories, for the images show the townspeople both as they were and as they wished to be."--Annals of Iowa
"J. J. Pennell's finely crafter pictorial record, together with the perceptive narratives by Shortridge and Pultz, help to shape and preserve memories of a past where reality turned its best profile to the camera and, therefore, to history itself."--James Enyeart, Marion Professor and Director, Anne and John Marion Center for Photographic Arts, College of Santa Fe, and author of Land, Sky, and All That Is Within: Visionary Photography in the Southwest
"To Pennell's wonderful photographs, Shortridge adds important analyses that range from the impact of railroad patterns, the auto, and the road, to the ethnic and moral makeup of Junction City and the role of nearby Ft. Riley."--Craig Miner, Distinguished Professor of History, Wichita State University, and author West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kanas, 1865-1890
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