Before Instagram, there were postcards. And over the next six months, Newberry Library, Chicago, will take possession of 2.5 million of them from the Curt Teich Postcards Archives Collection, ...

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When Katherine Hamilton-Smith walked into the farmhouse in a distant suburb of Chicago in 1982, all it held was one chair and one telephone. She managed to turn it into a triage scene. For the first ...

After decades of stewardship, the Lake County Forest Preserve District is in the homestretch of transferring ownership of its world renowned Curt Teich Postcard Archives collection to a new home.

Postcard of the World’s Only Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota (1928) (all images courtesy the Newberry Library) In the 1950s, visitors to the IQ Zoo, an animal training facility and tourist ...

It’s commonplace these days to send a photo by text message, post a picture on social media or react to the news solely with emojis. But before postcards became popular toward the end of the 19th ...