Antique & Vintage Postcards

Crisp Indiana limestone columns rise against a stylized linen-art sky in this mid-century rendering of Fort Wayne's United States Post Office and Court House — a $1,000,000 Art Deco-inflected federal landmark constructed in 1932 that the publisher called "one of the most beautiful buildings of its kind in the country." The vivid linen printing technique, popularized in the 1930s and 1940s, lends the building a painterly, almost monumental grandeur, the American flag snapping crisply at upper right. This card was never mailed, remaining in pristine unposted condition — a clean example of Midwestern federal architecture pride from the linen era.