Antique & Vintage Postcards

Pale adobe walls glow under a vivid turquoise sky as the Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe — established in 1549 and one of the oldest continuously active missions in North America — anchors the dusty streetscape of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, its single campanile rising beside a somber stone cross in the sun-bleached forecourt. This linen-finish card, numbered 2005 and produced in the USA by Curt Teich (C.T. American Art Colored, stock no. 68069), captures the mission in characteristic mid-century linen palette: the warm sienna of the facade, the deep wood-brown of the arched portal, and sprigs of young trees suggesting a recently tidied churchyard. The reverse identifies the printer as the Chicago-based Curt Teich firm — the dominant linen postcard manufacturer of the American Golden Age of postcards — with the "B PM" notation likely a dating/production code. Juárez missions appear frequently in border-tourism postcard sets aimed at American visitors crossing from El Paso, Texas.