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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 102.3 | The History Cooperative
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September, 2006
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Pictures of Home
A Memoir of Family and City

By Douglas Bukowski
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004. Pp. 245. Illustrations. $26.00)

One of the finest attributes of social history is its conviction that the average person's life is an authentic part of the human saga, as genuine as tales of the rich or powerful. Birth and death, childhood and work, love and heartache all mix together; the challenge for historians is to construct narratives from such fragmented sources as property records, census data, neighborhood newspapers, and oral histories. 1
      Pictures of Home is a different type of historical resource. Photographs from family albums and bureau drawers inspire some of the author's recollections. Small photographic reproductions precede each chapter. Intermittently, the author muses about the emotions captured in these moments. But the thematic glue that holds this book together is found in its subtitle: memoir, reflections on the everyday lives of aunts and uncles, grandparents and neighbors, parents and siblings. The "pictures" in this volume are not so much silver images recorded on paper as flashes from the author's memory. . . .
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