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Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Social Network

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Curator of Americana Will Hansen explore postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, ... technology, art, and culture. Postcards are usually associated with mundane holiday greetings – but there’s ... printers to postal services. And postcards first established what we now take for granted: the ability to ...

Postcards That Bear Witness

Remembrance Day, we’re highlighting a rare postcard book from the Newberry collection, produced in 1946 to ... strength in postcards, but the subject matter varies from our usual holdings. Mauthausen: Plus Jamais Ça! ... includes 25 black-and-white photo-illustrated postcards, depicting both the concentration camp architecture ...

Disability History in Rare Ephemera

collection includes nearly 200 pamphlets, postcards, handbills, photographs, and other printed items sold by ... 2.jpg Postcard showing “W. C. Williams, One Man Band,” and his many instruments, ca. 1910. Case folio ...

Exhibition Tour

Monday, June 13, 2022

postcards, and more from the Newberry’s collection recreate travelers’ experiences along the northern and ...

Introducing "Postcard Tag"

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Postcards can tell us a lot about how previous generations perceived and experienced the world. As the ... historical value of postcards becomes more and more apparent, scholars and enthusiasts are analyzing them to ... staff about “Postcard Tag,” a crowdsourcing initiative to improve the digital accessibility of thousands ...

The Newberry Releases Digital Collection of 26,000 Early 20th-Century Postcards

picture postcards produced by pioneering British company Raphael Tuck & Sons during the first half of ... the 20th century. Drawing on a vast archive of postcards received by the Newberry in 2016 and ... of thousands of “Oilettes”—postcards displaying versions of specially commissioned oil paintings. ...

Postcards from the Edge: the Teich Production Files

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

instructions, and marked-up proofs for the postcards Curt Teich & Co. produced at their Ravenswood factory. ... reveal about how postcards were made and will share some of the remarkable images and other artifacts ...

Postcard Sender

View this resource Postcard Sender Send an e-greeting to a friend with vintage postcard images ... from the Newberry’s digital collections. Related Resources About the Newberry's Postcard ...

Wish You Were Here: Postcards and Visual Culture

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Wacker Drive and the Chicago River postcard, 1928 “Greetings from Chicago” postcard, 1935 A Panel ... postcard! The Newberry has recently acquired the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, a remarkable ... collection of 2.5 million postcards, including the related design and business records of the Curt Teich ...

Postcards

A postcard, ca. 1910s, from the John I. Monroe Collection The Newberry collection includes ... postcards received as part of family papers, business archives; and as collections formed by individuals, ... focusing for example on travel postcards, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the city. ...

POSTCARDS! Introducing A New Core Collection At The Newberry

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

million postcards as a gift from the Lake County Forest Preserve District. The collection, previously ... Teich Company, which printed postcards in Chicago for nearly a century (1898-1978); and several ... collection of postcards and related materials in the United States. The Curt Teich Company Collection ...

Curt Teich Postcard Archives Digital Collection

View this resource Curt Teich Postcard Archives Digital Collection Early 20th-century postcard ... from the John I. Monroe Collection within the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection. The Curt Teich ... Postcard Archives Collection is widely regarded as the largest public collection of postcards and related ...

Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection

Thank you for your interest in the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection (or CTPAC). You can use ... Reproducing Images, and Offering to Donate Postcards. The Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection was ... of postcards and related materials in the United States. When received at the Newberry Library it was ...

Wish You Were Here: The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, 1982-2016

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

For members of the Society of Collectors A library-themed postcard printed by the Curt Teich ... Teich Postcard Archives ’ journey from potential doom in a Chicago landfill, to attracting major private ... Teich Postcard Collection until it was acquired by the Newberry, Katherine Hamilton-Smith is responsible ...

The Newberry Acquires World-Famous Collection of 2.5 Million Postcards

The Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, representing a century of American visual myth-making ... example of the Curt Teich Company’s iconic “Greetings from…” postcard design. The Leonard A. Lauder ... Raphael Tuck Collection contains over 35,000 postcards known as “oilettes”: postcards created from ...

Chicago Map Society: John Long, Collecting Maps on Postcards

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Thursday, February 16, 2012 Maps on postcards make up an enormous body of miniature maps that ... others found only in the postcard world—from entertainment to way-finding. John Long will give a brief ... overview of map postcard collecting and then concentrate on some of the more interesting map cards he has ...

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