Antique & Vintage Postcards

Linen postcard of Lanier Boys' High School in Macon, Georgia — a substantial three-story red brick building with neoclassical entrance columns, mailed in June 1935 from one friend to another up in Michigan, the kind of card people sent to stay connected before long-distance calls were cheap. The school was named for Sidney Lanier, the Georgia-born poet and Confederate veteran, and operated as Macon's segregated white boys' school through much of the 20th century. Posted at the close of a school year deep in the Depression, it carries the unremarkable warmth of people keeping in touch across the miles.