Tucson's Etherton Gallery is hosting an exhibit of historical postcards. Called Tucson Historic Postcard Prints, the gallery says that these postcards "highlight the landscape and buildings of a vibrant desert city in the 1930s and ‘40s."
We have a number of postcards included in Through Our Parents' Eyes exhibits. My favorite is one provided by Irwin Wernick, who retired to Tucson forty years after the train he was traveling home on stopped in Tucson. Irwin was on his way home after serving overseas in the U.S. Army. He wrote:
From San Francisco we passed through Los Angeles, Yuma, Maricopa, Casa Grande, and stopped for thirty minutes in Tucson, AZ. I disembarked, stretched and walked around the Tucson railroad terminal. I purchased some picture post cards in the terminal gift shop. My favorite was the "giant cactus."
Other postcards of historical importance are found in the Carondelet Sisters exhibit's photo page. Here's an example
 | FRESH AIR, SUNSHINE AND FRIENDSHIP, ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL AND SANATORIUM, TUCSON, ARIZONA. This postcard shows nurses and patients along the interior of the Sanatorium, a two-story circular structure surrounding an inner patio |
