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The Happy Invention:
History and Significance of Picture Postcards

Wednesday, April 16, 1:30 p.m.
Augustana Lutheran Church
5500 South Woodlawn Avenue

FREE and open to the public

UChicago alumna and Founding Curator of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, which is now at the Newberry Library, will speak about the history and significance of picture postcards. Hyde Park resident and tenth president (and first woman president) of the Newberry Library, Astrida Orle Tantillo, will provide words of welcome.

Attendees are invited to bring postcards of interest for discussion.

Katherine Hamilton-Smith

Astrida Orle Tantillo

This event is co-presented by the Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau. Road Scholar speakers travel throughout Illinois sharing free, dynamic presentations about literature, philosophy, theater, Local history, film, music, politics, and more, at no cost to host organizations. The program enables local nonprofit organizations to present free-admission cultural programs to their communities.