[Masonic Temple]

Antonio Pini-Corsi, an operatic baritone then singing with the Metropolitan Opera, sent this postcard to his tenor friend in 1900. The card shows the Masonic Temple in Chicago, with a hand drawn musical score along the bottom. This "travel and landmark" postcard shows how senders personalized these mass-produced objects. Over one billion postcards were sold annually between 1900 and 1915, the height of the postcard craze.