Many cities have murals of the form “Greetings from City”, where the city name is in large letters and local landmarks are inside the letters. Here’s an example from Houston
Does this style of mural have a name and how did it start? If you know of other similar murals, post links to them.
Don’t know about murals, but that was a very popular postcard motif for years.
http://www.ajc.com/gallery/travel/greetings-tour-vintage-us-postcards/gCBn5/#3603771
Collectors call these “Large Letter” Post-cards, and I believe they originated in about 1933.
That website is completely fubar’d.
Works just fine for me in Firefox on a Mac. In fact, I found a funny typo. The postcard from Chicago is definitely not from “1900.”
a Google image search on large letter postcards brings back more than you’ll ever need. Thanks to jtur88 for providing the correct term.
I have several older with the oldest postmark being from 1902.
What city?
Here’s one from Algers, from 1905:
http://www.vintagetobacco.com/goldcoast/new/pcg/g7920.jpg
And one from New York:
