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Article: WISH YOU WERE HERE | NEW GALLERY IN THE WORKS FOR LAKE COUNTY MUSEUM'S POSTCARD COLLECTION | POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE: MUSEUM IN WEST LAKE COUNTY HAS THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION
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- The News-Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- November 8, 1997
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Wauconda Township The world's largest collection of postcards, spanning a century of Americana, is going to move from a small corner of the Lake County Museum to a larger gallery occupying one-third of the building.
When the new public quarters of the Curt Teich collection open in spring 1999, visitors will enter through a cavern that is completely covered, from floor to ceiling, with postcard images.
Plans call for the focal point to be a gigantic image from a postcard of the Eiffel Tower.
The current public showcase is within a small circle of glass blocks -- cute, but not dramatic.
"Casual visitors think it's nice, but aren't particularly impressed.
And they certainly don't come away ...