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Adele Fasick's avatar

What a great idea--to collect postcards of so many different libraries. I look forward to browsing through many of them over this holiday weekend.

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George Eberhart's avatar

Small towns in the early 20th century valued their libraries highly, both the collections and the architecture, so they wanted them to appear on postcards along with all the tourist attractions and places of industry and commerce. These postcards told the rest of the world, "Yes, we know how to read great literature too, just like you snooty New Yorkers!"

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