Antique & Vintage Postcards

The soaring Modernist mass of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library rises above a circular fountain on the sun-drenched University of Texas at Austin campus — a bold architectural statement that opened in 1971 and quickly became one of Austin's most visited landmarks, housing 45 million pages of historical documents from LBJ's presidency. Shot by Bob Cunningham and produced as a "Tetricolor Card" by Kansas City publisher James Tetrick, this pristine chrome example has been hand-dated April 13, 1974 in blue ink — just three years after the library's dedication and barely a year after LBJ's death in January 1973, lending the card a poignant historical resonance. The image captures the library's striking Gordon Bunshaft–designed travertine facade alongside the adjacent Sid Richardson Hall, with manicured grounds and American flags completing the scene.