A father writing home to his daughter in Illinois chose this postcard of the Dallas Carnegie Library to share news of Texas rain and crops in May 1912 — a library built four years earlier with a $50,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie himself, demolished in 1954 and now surviving only in images like this one.

• Caption: "Carnegie Library, Dallas, Tex."
• Publisher: G. Kropp Co. Pub., Milwaukee — no. 6037
• Postmark: Dallas, Tex., May 10, 1912
• Status: Posted