The view shows Racine's public library, a stone Beaux-Arts building with a tall arched entrance, rusticated base, and balustraded roofline, set behind a lawn with young shade trees. A red brick building with a porch stands at the right. Racine's Carnegie library was built in the early 1900s, part of a wave of civic library buildings that American cities erected with Andrew Carnegie's grants. The street-side scene has no figures and presents the library as a quiet civic landmark.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Dear Grandma, We received your postal
cards. And was glad to get them.
White border; heavy corner rounding, edge wear, creases and surface soiling; handwritten message and signature on the front over the sky and right margin, the sender's name written vertically along the right edge and a handwritten card-type note at top right with its second line crossed out; grainy tinted halftone/litho stock.
Postmark: RACINE JUNC. STA. RACINE, WIS. OCT 24 1 PM (no year in cancel). Undivided back printed "THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS."; 1¢ green Franklin stamp; colored halftone print; light creases and edge wear.
Cite this card
Public Library, Racine, Wisconsin, circa 1904, postcard, c. 1904. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/public-library-racine-wisconsin-circa-1904. Accessed November 2, 2026.
