Postcard Past / Present Photo

Merged image of the 1942 postcard and 2022 photo

Mar 31, 2025 California From the archive

Maryland Hotel / Warwick Hotel, San Francisco

A tidy Beaux Arts hotel designed by Righetti & Headman on the edge of the Tenderloin, the Maryland Hotel was built in 1912 and followed an extremely typical trajectory for a San Francisco residential hotel.

Merged image of the 2022 photo and the color postcard

Mar 17, 2025 Netherlands

Station Hollands Spoor, the Hague, the Netherlands

A bit of an anachronism and a survivor, Den Haag Hollands Spoor is one the Hague’s two main train stations, which somehow never consolidated.

Merged image of the postcard and the photo

Mar 10, 2025 Copenhagen

Swedish Gustaf's Church, Copenhagen

Basically the Øresund in built form foreshadowing the century of friendship that followed, the monarchs of both Sweden and Denmark dedicated Svenska Gustafskyrkan when it opened in 1911.

Mar 6, 2025 NYC New York From the archive

Church Center for the United Nations, New York

The Church Center for the United Nations doesn’t exactly live up to its vibrant portrayal in this postcard, but the modernist chapel here is neat. Designed by William Lescaze, the United Methodist Church intended the Church Center to be a interfaith religious mission to the UN.

Merged image of the postcard with the present-day photo

Mar 4, 2025 Copenhagen

Kinopalæet og Det Ny Teater, Copenhagen

Traces of climate change and Nazis—crises past, present, and future—mark the intersection of Gammel Kongevej and Vodroffsvej.