Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-02-18 | Page 3 | Unique Postcard Gift to Harvard

Unique e Postcard Gift to Harvard CAMBRIDGE Mass Feb 18 AP Harvard AP-Harvard Harvard has lias received two unique collections one collections one a group of postcards representing a de detailed detailed detailed de- de tailed record of de design design design de- de sign sculpture and paintings in the museums of eastern Europe and the other packs flacks of old playing cards The postcards which go to the Fogg art museum are the gift of the collector Henry Russell Hitchcock Hitchcock Hitch Hitch- cock a member of ot the department of ot fine tine arts In Harvard college The playing cards are given by James E. E Whitney to the Widener library Some of ot them date back to the early sixteenth century and andare andare andare are considered highly valuable a as specimens of ot early printing Designs Designs Designs De De- signs on the backs include curious caricatures and political cartoons of a satirical nature Mr l Hitchcock In his tour of ot European European European Eu Eu- countries in search earch of material material material ma ma- found that France was the most of them all In Toulouse he picked up several thousand of ot the towns and villages of ot southern France and the Pyrenees 1