Showing posts with label collecting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collecting. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

This memorial to Haryy Elkins Widener, Class of 1907, houses almost half of the world-famous Harvard book collection of over six million volumes. [From the back of the card] - [LIB0153]
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Did you know?

Postcards, in the form of government postal cards and privately printed souvenir cards,
became very popular as a result of the Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893,
after postcards featuring buildings were distributed at the fair.