Fifty-four postcards including many duplicates, of views of the Newberry Library in Chicago, some without message and most written before 1915.

Cards were written by both Chicago residents and visitors. Most were published by Chicago publishers, but also by firms in New York, Milwaukee. and San Francisco, and many were printed in Germany, sometimes with embellishment or extra coloring added. No messages refer to actually visiting the library, and as one correspondent says, “…still collecting souvenir postals”, and another writes: “This is the library I have mentioned several times. It is just two blocks from my boarding house.” There are the usual abbreviated postcard greetings: “Great place”, “Some town”, “A kiss from Alma”, “I miss you very much”, as well as the amusing 1906: “We arrived safe in Chicago…nothing unusual has happened found we had an extra satchel with nothing in it…”.