Antique & Vintage Postcards

Soaring above the red-roofed campus of Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana — a strut or window frame of the aircraft cutting the corner of the frame — this vivid chrome-era aerial photograph by Harold Harvey captures the university's mid-century expansion in full summer color, dormitories and engineering halls sprawling outward toward Indiana farmland on every horizon. Published by Harvey's Studio of Lebanon, Indiana (no. 73558) and printed by Dexter Press, this well-traveled card carries a warm, hurried message from Carl to Eve, a medical records worker at Beatty Memorial Hospital in Westville, Indiana: "Dear Eve: Your letters have all been wonderful. I haven't had time to read them all yet. 'Having wonderful time — wish you were here.' Always, Carl." The Liberty stamp — Scott #1035, the Statue of Liberty 3¢ — is cancelled, and the card is addressed in a confident cursive hand, adding a genuine human story to a striking mid-century campus view.