The card shows 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. Phoebe Apperson Hearst endowed the library; the Hearst family's copper fortune came from Butte and Anaconda, and in 1907 Anaconda was a copper-smelting center. A short note on the picture side, signed Mabelle, asks why the recipient has not written and hopes he is not ill.
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 pencil dealer stock number (D. 2112 / NC) sits at the upper left of the front, and a penciled '1501 Wilson ave' in a different hand appears at the left of the address side.
Postmark: ANACONDA MONT. NOV 15 6-PM 1907 — 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, MT, 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/hearst-free-library-anaconda-mt-1907. Accessed November 2, 2026.
