Great Lakes Postcard Set

WISH YOU WERE HERE This set of five postcards, one each for Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, was created as a tribute to Curt Teich & Co., the firm that revolutionized the postcard industry in the 1930s with their dreamy, photographic, hand-retouched “Art-Colortone” linen cards. They’re all ready for a stamp (this one would look particularly good) and a few witty lines to bring a little old-school joy to the mailboxes of your friends and family. Re-Imagining the Past While researching the Great Lakes for our Summer 2022 Field Notes Quarterly Edition, we stumbled across some intriguing postcards of the region from the 1930s. We knew we were on to something special when we discovered that the company behind these enormously popular postcards, Curt Teich & Co, was located—like us—in Chicago. On top of that, the largest collection of these postcards is housed at the famed Newberry Library,  just a mile or so east of Field Notes HQ. A few days later, Jeffrey L.