Postcards, Travelling and Tourism: the Experience of an Ecuadorian Traveller at the beginning of the 20th Century

Abstract

As a means of communication, for correspondence or as a beloved item of collectors and travellers, the illustrated postcard has an importance to social and cultural history, and, with its representations and assessments, is also a rich source of visual culture. Through the analysis of the correspondence between an Ecuadorian traveller, in her diverse movements to places in Latin America and Europe, and her correspondents, at the beginning of the 20th century, this paper explores the practices of correspondence by postcards and its different uses among the travelling experience, the different modes of seeing, communicating and interacting. The relation between the visual and the textual is, thus, a central issue for the interpretative analysis.

Keywords

• postal: usos
• apropiación
• experiencia de viaje
• mirada turística