“Greetings from North Pole, N.Y.!”

  This souvenir folder of folding postcards is part of the Avery Classics collection which has over three thousand postcard books featuring American cities and towns. Intended to be mailed as souvenirs, these postcard books date from the 1890s to the 1950s and often include views of significant buildings–or charming local attractions, as the case […]

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Avery Classics books in The Greatest Grid exhibition

This week marks the opening of "The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011" at the Museum of the City of New York This show features two works from the Avery Classics collection: Simeon DeWitt’s Elements of Perspective  (1813) and Le Corbusier’s  Quand les cathédrales étaient blanches: voyage au pays des timides (1937). Located […]

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