Postcards Subject of Talk At Geneva History Center

A penny to buy and a penny to send, during the late 19th and 20th centuries postcards were a cheap, efficient, and colorful means of communication.  On Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 2 p.m., the Geneva History Center will host “Taking Postcards Seriously,”  The lecture will be presented by Christine Pyle of the Lake County Discovery Museum’s Curt Teich Postcard Archives, the world's largest publicly held repository of postcards and the materials used to produce them.  She will discuss the beginning of the postcard business in the U.S. and how postcards document late 19th- and 20th-century life and communication.

This lecture will take place in the Community Room at the Geneva History Center.  Admission to the lecture is $7 for adults; $5 for GHC members and students.  Afterward, attendees are invited to visit the new exhibitions--In Other Words: A History of Communication in Geneva and Every Story Counts.  The Geneva History Center is located at 113 South Third Street in the heart of historic downtown Geneva.  Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  For more information, call 630-232-4951.