Greetings from Omaha large letter postcard, Nebraska, circa 1940

About this postcard

A large-letter greeting from Omaha, Nebraska, frames small local views inside tall block letters. The scenes include a classical public building, the landscaped Walnut Hill Reservoir with a fountain, a downtown street with a streetcar, a streamlined passenger train, and a stone civic building. The printed text calls Omaha the "key city in the nation's richest agricultural empire" and notes that a 100-mile circle around the city held more than 1.37 million people in four states. Walnut Hill Reservoir was a landscaped Omaha waterworks site that appeared on local postcards. Large-letter greetings like this one packed a city's attractions into a single souvenir image.