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11/20/2024 0 Comments

Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. November 20, 1956 or 1958.

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Address: Mr. & Mrs. Epperson
3300 Kingsland Ave.
Oakland, California

Postmarked: Chicago, Nov 20, 9 PM, 1956/8 Ill.

Message: Thanks for the enjoyable evening at your home. Leu Rutledge

Postcard: CK-209 - Michigan Avenue Looking North from the Wrigley Building, on the right. Tribue Tower, Sheraton Hotel, Allerton Hotel, the Old Water Tower and the Palmolive Building in the background.
Aero Distributing Co., Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Natural Color Reproduction - Curteichcolor Art-Creation Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.
3 cent liberty stamp
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5/25/2024 0 Comments

Afternoon At High Rock, May 25, 1977

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Address: Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Reber
Box 258
Blue Ball, Pa. 17506

(Family Search ID LBB1-4XQ, my 5th cousin four times removed)

Postmarked: North Suburban. IL 601

Message:
Hi! This is where we spent Sunday and Monday. It's a fantastic place - the town's tacky, but the scenery is great. We really needed to get away. Today (5/24) I interviewed at the doctorate program. It looks as though I'm in! It must be 100 (degrees) today - it's going to be a long summer. Take it easy. Time to go to work.
Love,
Alan & Linda

Postcard: Afternoon at high rock
The rock of which the fantastic formations of the Dells are carved is Cambrian (Potsdam) sandstone. It was laid down as the sandy bed of sea ages ago. Hardened into rock it later uplifted above the sea.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

J3960 Copyright H. H. Bennett Studio
Published by H. H. Bennett Studio, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin 53965
"the man with the camera"
100 years
1865 to 1965
H. H. Bennett Studio

9 cent Right of People Peaceably to Assemble stamp
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5/15/2024 0 Comments

Lincoln's Tomb, May 15, 1984

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Address: Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Smith
113 E. Broad St.
New Holland, Pa. 17557

Postmarked: (can only read zip code 67410 which is for Abilene, KS)

Message: We're in Abilene Kansas this A.M. will see the Eisenhower Library, home and museum today. Weather fine so far 6 more days to go!
See you
Frances

Postcard: Lincoln's Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery
Springfield, Illinois
Standing 117 feet tall, the exterior of the tomb is constructed of dressed granite. Construction began in 1871 with last major reconstruction complete in 1931. In the peaceful setting of this cemetery one of America's most beloved President's now rests.

IDC-42
Illinois Distributing Co., P.O. Box 1382, Aurora, IL 60507
Stamp: 13cent Crazy Horse
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5/5/2024 0 Comments

S.S. "Delta Queen" May 5, 5 PM, 1952

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Address:
M. Norris Hamlin & Family
1024 North 24th
Quincy, IL.
(Rev. Norris L. Hamlin 1911-1973. It's fun to see if you are related in some way. According to Family Search, this is my 9th cousin twice removed)

Postmarked: Eddyville, K

Message:
Dear Folk-
Hope all are well and having a good time. I have had my first day with nothing but "house cleaning" to do since Jan.
"Mary, mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow"
May God bless you,
(?D,Q,G?) Penderpope(?)

Postcard:
Front:
S. S. "Delta Queen" Approaching Kentucky Dam's Mammoth Lock on the Tennessee River
Back:
Kentucky Dam, the largest of T.V.A.'s Chain of Dams, backs up Kentucky Lake which is the largest man-made Body of Water on Earth - 184 miles long and with 2,400 mile shoreline. The navigation lock at Kentucky Dam is the highest single lift lock in the world with a normal lift of 55 feet (maximum of 73 feet). The lock is 800 feet long and 110 feet wide.

Distributed by Wilson's & Stationary Store Paducah, KY.
Genuine Cu?-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" Post Card (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)
2 cent stamp
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