Article: Postcards keep memories of resort areas alive.(Neighbor)

Byline: Katherine Hamilton-Smith

Chicago's Curt Teich & Company (1898-1978) was the world's largest volume printer of postcards, printing postcards for all the states of the United States, all the provinces of Canada and some 60 foreign countries.

But Teich was not alone in the business. There were thousands of other postcard companies large and small in the early part of the 20th century. And competition in the industry was fierce.

To survive in a competitive market, companies developed specialties. The English publisher Raphael Tuck specialized in art postcards, and wrote in 1900 that their objective in publishing postcards was to "foster the ...

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