Antique & Vintage Postcards

Soaring seventeen stories above downtown Dallas in a crisp white-border illustration, the Santa Fe Building stands as a monument to 1920s commercial confidence — its terra-cotta ornamented base, arched ground-floor arcades, and rooftop signage broadcasting the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's presence in the heart of Texas business life. This hand-colored white-border postcard, dated February 17, 1926, was sent by a woman named Grace from Dallas to a Mrs. Adolph at 201 S. Galt Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. Grace writes in a gracious, flowing hand that Dallas is enjoying summer-like weather and she wishes the Louisville friends could share it — a quintessential winter-escape sentiment from the Roaring Twenties, when Dallas was growing rapidly as a railroad and oil hub. The Santa Fe Building (now known as the Santa Fe Terminal) was completed in 1921 and remained one of Dallas's prominent skyscrapers through the decade. The postmark confirms the Dallas, Texas cancel dated February 19, 1926, with a 2-cent Washington stamp affixed.