Antique & Vintage Postcards

Against a pale linen-textured sky dotted with fluffy white clouds, the stately neoclassical United States Post Office in Pittsfield, Massachusetts stands in sharp Curteich chromolithographic splendor — its Ionic columns, arched windows, and gleaming white granite façade projecting the institutional confidence of the New Deal era that built it. A dark navy pre-war sedan idles at the curb and a deep-red coupe rounds the corner, placing this card precisely in the early 1940s wartime home-front world. Published by C. W. Hughes & Co. of Mechanicville, New York using the Curteich "C. T. Art Colortone" process and bearing the printing code 1B-H1943, this linen-era card is an attractive artifact of mid-century American civic architecture and postal history.