In 1938 or ’39, a boy of five or six, or maybe seven, was so enthralled by the beauty of a postcard of the Empire State Building that he took his entire five-cent allowance and bought five of them—all ...
WAUCONDA, Ill. -- Twenty years ago, Katherine Hamilton-Smith was hired by the Lake County Discovery Museum near Wauconda to create the first postcard archives. Today, the 46-year-old Libertyville ...