Editor’s note: Pictured here and on the cover are just a few of Ridley Wills II’s collection of about 26,000 Tennessee postcards.
Wills recently donated his collection of Vanderbilt and Peabody postcards, including those featured here, to the library.
He also used many postcards from his extensive collection in his book Touring Tennessee: A Postcard Panorama, 1898–1955. The Wills family has supported the Vanderbilt library for three generations.