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The Curt Teich Postcard Archives at the Lake County Discovery Museum is the largest public collection of postcards and related materials in North America. The core collection in the Teich Archives is the industrial archives of the Curt Teich Company of Chicago, which operated from 1898 to 1978 as the world’s largest printer of view and advertising postcards. The company saved
examples of every image printed, as well as the original production materials for each postcard.
Client List Magazines: Hemispheres, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Historic Preservation, National Geographic, American Heritage, Money. Book Publishers: St. Martin’s Press, Archetype Press, McGraw-Hill, Harcourt Brace, Harper Collins. Design/Architecture: Disney’s Boardwalk Hotel, Dreamworks, Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates. Television: Warner Brothers, Antiques
Roadshow, WGBH.
Specialities Historic images of 20th Century life. Vintage postcards chronicling cities and towns, destinations, travel, transportation, National Parks, social attitudes, the marketplace, family life, fashion, holidays, the months and seasons, architecture, the changing landscape, and design movements. Other topics include Route 66, The Lincoln Highway, African-American history, world’s fairs, literary characters, suffragettes, genre and patriotic subjects. The strength of the collection is in the United States and North American locations. Europe, Asia, South America, Central America, the Orient, and the South Pacific are also represented.
Size Of Library The core collection consists of
over 360,000 cataloged images, 1893 to 1978,
relating to 10,000 towns and cities primarily in the
United States and Canada and more than 87 other
foreign countries.
All images appearing on this website are protected by UK and international copyright
laws. You may NOT reproduce them in any way, for any purpose whatsoever,
without the explicit permission of the respective copyright holders.
