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!"
O me, too. Sometimes I read something and think--now how can I connect that to libraries? And then I learn a lot, too. Like today. I read about the DOD launching a new operation and then I read about it and learned that that area was once called something else and found that there is a 2000 yo old Greek ship captain who wrote about it. I sure didn't know that when I woke up this morning.
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.
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!"
It's great that ALA is accepting library postcards collections. Another larger collection of note is the Daniel W. Lester Library Postcard Collection https://www.library.illinois.edu/ala/2015/01/13/daniel-w-lester-library-postcard-collection/ .
It's astonishing to me that so many postcards were made of libraries.
I love where your posts take me to. Launch points to learning!
O me, too. Sometimes I read something and think--now how can I connect that to libraries? And then I learn a lot, too. Like today. I read about the DOD launching a new operation and then I read about it and learned that that area was once called something else and found that there is a 2000 yo old Greek ship captain who wrote about it. I sure didn't know that when I woke up this morning.