Miss Crabb: librarian and poet

A postcard with an illustration of the train station in Cincinnati showing a very "hall of justice" looking building with flags flying outside

postcard reverse addressed to Miss Crabb, Library, Berea KY. Text on card reads "How's the lower regions? See you soon. Nancy" it was mailed in 1945 and has a one cent stamp

This started out as just a fun postcard I bought for fifty cents, intending to send it to my cousin. We had been to this train station together a zillion years ago when I visited him living just over the border in Kentucky. Like “Haha, remember that cool building and also there’s a librarian involved.” but then I wondered… The paucity of name/address, the possible double entendre message (from a woman), what else could I find out here? And then, along the way, it became another goofy “librarian vs. LLM” story which I will mostly spare you. But first, Miss Crabb.
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