Antique & Vintage Postcards

Bathed in the saturated tropical palette that made linen-era postcards irresistible, this vivid Asheville Post Card Company production shows Tallahassee's stately Supreme Court Building presiding over manicured grounds — a fan palm soaring at left, an American flag snapping at the roofline, and vintage automobiles barely glimpsed in the shrubbery, dating the scene to the late 1930s or early 1940s. The building, completed in 1949 to replace an earlier structure, is depicted here likely in an artist's rendering or early construction-era view used on cards distributed before the building was complete, making it an interesting documentary artifact. Printed by Curt Teich's Chicago plant under the "C.T. Art-Colortone" process — a registered trademark for their premium linen line — and distributed by the Asheville Post Card Co. of Asheville, N.C., this unused card is a clean example of Florida government-building ephemera from the linen golden age.