The following postcards capture downtown Warren and area landmarks at various times in the city’s history. Although postcards can help document an era, they weren’t always true depictions of a street scene. Artists in distant production houses hand colored buildings, removed overhead wires or painted in features like clouds, blue skies and American flags. Liberties were taken because a postcard was, at its heart, promotional. Although many early cards were printed in Germany, production shifted to the United States when tariffs were added to a range of imported products prior to World War I. Still, vintage postcards serve as interesting windows into an era.
