Under his management, Curt Teich & Company became the world's largest printer of view and advertising postcards.

[2] 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.

[3] "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.

[2] Teich employed hundreds of traveling salesmen, who sold picture postcards to domestic residences, and encouraged business to create advertising postcards; these salesmen also photographed the businesses and worked with the owners to create an idealized image.

[4] Altogether, the Newberry Library received approximately 2.5 million total items including nearly 500,000 postcard images.