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The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County
Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest
public collection of postcards and related materials.
The Teich Archives include:
- Images of more than 10,000 towns
and cities in North America and over 87 foreign countries
- One of the nation's largest collections of Route 66, Lincoln
Highway and other travel-related images
- Over 100,000 job files for the postcards produced by the
Teich Company
- 365,000 postcards that are computer-cataloged under more
than 2,100 subject headings
Hours
The Archives Library is open Monday through Friday from 11
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. An appointment will provide staff assistance
and access to the Collections. Appointments are available Monday
through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Telephone,
mail and e-mail
research requests are encouraged.
Exhibits
Located in the Lake County Discovery Museum gallery is the
new exhibit, Bringing the World Home, a fun and entertaining
look at life in the past two centuries through postcards. Learn
about the history of the postcard and their importance as research
documents.
Membership: Friends
of Lake County Discovery Museum
The Friends of the Lake County Discovery Museum began in 1971
as a group of private citizens organized to promote the Museum,
which opened in 1976. The Friends are a not-for-profit organization
formed exclusively for educational purposes. Their purpose today
is to provide support to Museum operations in the areas of membership,
development, fundraising, and the publication of Historian
and Image File.
Friends of the Lake County Discovery Museum enjoy:
- Free admission
- Museum store discounts
- Free subscription to the Museum's Historian or Image
File magazine
- Invitations to exclusive Members-only events
To become a Member, call 847-968-3400 or download
a membership application (PDF file).
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Images
- Postcards Online - Digital Past
Project
Access more than 19,000 postcard views of towns, cities,
lakes, rivers, and parks in Illinois, across the country and
Canada from the Teich Archives collections. For information about
accessing and viewing the images on the Digital Past
Project site, please email
us, or use our Easy Email form.
Postcard Art Competition/Exhibition (PACE)
This bi-annual event honors the postcard as an art form and
challenges artists from around the country to create original
works of art in 4"x 6" postcard size. Click here
to view past winning entries.
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