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Article: Silk-woven postcard collection meets High standard.(Neighbor)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2000
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Byline: Katherine Hamilton-Smith
When you think of world-renown collections, you might think of Impressionist paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago or dinosaur skeletons at the Field Museum of Natural History.
But you don't have to go to Chicago to see one. There is a world-class collection right on your doorstep at the Lake County Discovery Museum, the John High Collection.
The John High Collection, part of the museum's Curt Teich Postcard Archives, is one of the most important collections of postcards in the world. It includes many types of early postcards, but is best known as the world's premier collection of postcards woven in pure ...