The Library History Buff

Promoting the appreciation, enjoyment, and preservation of library history

Library Postcards

The Viroqua (WI) Public Library, now the McIntosh Memorial Public Library.

Collecting picture postcards of libraries is one of the most common and most popular librariana collecting areas. Norman D. Stevens has compiled a list of people who have previously collected library postcards.  I am trying to maintain a list of active library postcard collectors and collections.  If you are interested in being included on the active list contact me at nix@libraryhistorybuff.org.  Links to some library postcard collections on the Internet and to some postcard collecting resources are provided below. 

Library Postcard Collections on the Internet

The Library Postcard site of Sharon McQueen and Richard Douglas
http://www.libraryhistory.com/
This is a sophisticated site with great ambitions.  Contributions in the form of library postcards or money is being solicited to support the site.  Contact Richard Douglas to contribute.  You can also mail contributions to Postcards, 2018 North First Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212-3202.

The Library Postcard site of Judy Aulik
http://home.comcast.net/~jaulik/index.html
This is a great library postcard site which is expanding. I'm envious.

Library postcard favorites of Larry T. Nix
http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/pcfavorites.htm

Library postcard group on Flickr established by Elizabeth Thomsen
http://www.flickr.com/groups/librarypostcards/

Library Postcards at the American Library Association Archives
http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ead/ala/digital/ala-digital.html

Library Postcard Collection of J. Stewart Roberts Associates - Architects
http://web.me.com/jstewartroberts/JSRA_POSTCARDS/Index_.html

Postcards of the New York Public Library Collected by Harvey Lynch
http://www.nyplpostcard.com/

The Detroit Publishing Co. Collection at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/touring/
Search using the word "library".

The library postcard page of the Lexington (KY) Public Library
http://www.lexpublib.org/postcards/

The library postcard page of Owen Massey, a librarian in London, England
http://owen.massey.net/libraries/postcards.html

Postcard images of the Watertown (WI) Public Library
http://www.watertownhistory.org/Articles/Library.htm

The Cliff Smith YMCA Postcard Collection (Search under "library")

Planners Web of the Planning Commissioners Journal http://www.plannersweb.com/publicbldgs.html

Postcard Collecting Resources

Jack D. Mount's Postcard Resources Site
http://members.cox.net/jdmount/postcard.html

Postcard.org
http://www.postcard.org/
The San Francisco Bay Area Postcard Club site.