National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection Launched
The Office of Digital Collections and Research and the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection are proud to announce the launch of The National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection.
From a “colorized” view of Luna Park, a great Coney Island amusement park that burned in 1944, to the long-ago streets of Baltimore, the National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection preserves unique and engaging images of people and places in early twentieth-century America. These postcards also provide unique evidence of the evolution in American architecture, with rare glimpses of buildings or places that may no longer exist or have dramatically altered over time.
The online collection represents a small sampling of the approximately 20,000 postcards available in the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection. The Libraries will continue to add images to this collection.
For more information about the entire collection please visit http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/postcards.html.
Please explore the site and send us any feedback, questions and comments at http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/contact.jsp.