Curt Teich

Curt Otto Teich (March 1877 – 1974) was an American publisher of German descent who produced popular color postcards, primarily of scenes from American life. He was a pioneer of the offset printing process. Under his management, Curt Teich & Company became the world's largest printer of view and advertising postcards.

Life Teich was born in Greiz, Thuringia (modern-day Germany), and, following his family's traditional career as printers and publishers, worked as a printer's apprentice in Lobenstein. He immigrated to the United States in 1895, where he initially worked as a printer's devil in New York, a much lower position than he had held in Germany. "Greetings From" postcards had originated in Germany in the 1890s, and Teich successfully imported the style to the American market after a visit in 1904. Altogether, the Newberry Library received approximately 2.5 million total items including nearly 500,000 postcard images. On April 3, 2017, the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection was opened to researchers.

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