This is an example of a linen postcard, in use from about 1933 to the mid 1950’s. This card was postmarked December 18, 1942. Someone sometime somewhere along the way wrote “1942″ on the front of the card. I don’t much like that, but I guess it is part of the history of this particular postcard. It was manufactured by the Curt Teich Company of Chicago, which operated from 1898 to 1978 as the world’s largest printer of view and advertising postcards. Curt Otto Teich (1877-1974), an immigrant to the US from Germany (1896), founded the company. The company saved examples of every image printed, as well as company records and the original production materials for each postcard. This information comes from www.TeichArchives.org and the following is a direct quote from their website: “The Teich Archives consists of millions of images relating to 10,000 towns and cities primarily in the United States and Canada, but including more than 87 other foreign countries. More than 365,000 images are cataloged in the Archives, and 20,000 of these are available online at www.digitalpast.org.” “Greetings from Akron Ohio Rubber Manufacturing Center of the World” This is what made Akron a boom town in the teens of the 20th century. Rubber The big three rubber manufacturers had plants here–Goodrich, Goodyear and Firestone. Until my next post…