The card pictures the Hearst Free Library in Anaconda, Montana, a Neoclassical building with a columned entrance portico, arched ground-floor windows and a balustraded roofline, seen from the street corner with a low fence and utility poles in the foreground. The library was one of several endowed by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, whose family's copper fortune was tied to nearby Butte and Anaconda. The printed caption supplies the building's name and town.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Why do you not
write? I
Hope you
are not
ill —
Sincerely
Mabelle.
Undivided-back era card with the message written on the picture side; heavy edge wear, torn corners, staining and creases; a faint, largely illegible address block (apparently ending 'N.C.') sits at the upper left.
Postmark: ANACONDA MONT. NOV 15 6-PM 07 — undivided back (message written on the picture side), white border, matte halftone texture; heavy edge wear, creases and corner losses; 1-cent Franklin stamp.
Cite this card
Hearst Free Library, Anaconda, Montana, circa 1905, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/hearst-free-library-anaconda-montana-circa-1905. Accessed October 24, 2026.
