As a brief follow-up to the first such instalment (click on the link below), I’m sharing a picture postcard from Libau, present-day Liepāja, Latvia with you.
EDIT / UPDATE: Thank you, Dr. Aneta Pavlenko, Professor of Linguistics at Drexel University (a subscriber to these pages and fellow postcard-afficionado) in Philadelphia, USA, for pointing to the (shameful) fact that, in an earlier version of this posting, I misplaced Liepāja in Lithuania.
This one shows the former Girls’ Gymnasium, which, upon Latvian independence from Russia—and freedom from German occupation (1915-18)—in the wake of World War One was re-dedicated as the First State Gymnasium in 1920. Note the stamp attached to the “front” side of the picture postcard.
Here’s the source of a more recent picture taken in 2015.
EDIT / UPDATE 2: After 1920, the school was taken over by the new Latvian state; today, the building itself is used by the University of Liepāja.
The above postcard was sent in October 1913, as its reverse shows: