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Postcard Collection

The Regional History Center's postcard collection provides a unique source for photographic and artistic documentation of people, places and events, with the majority being produced during the 1900-1940 period. Many of the cards in this collection came from four manuscript collections held by the Regional History Center: W.W. Embree (RC 2); Sabin-Van Arsdale (RC 32); Kavadas (RC 50); and Hall Family (RC 117). A fair amount of the collection consists of cards depicting scenes or events from the Northern Illinois region and Illinois. Also representative in the collection are postcards of other states, national holidays and special occasions, American Indians, foreign countries, advertisements, and calendars and blotters.

For more information about this collection, please see the Center's finding aid.

Bird's Eye View, Aurora, Ill.
Street Scene Cortland Ill.
Scenes in Rochelle
Congregational Church - Kirkland - Ill
Lee Center Public School Nov. 9 - 1923.
Horse Shoe Falls, Starved Rock, Illinois State Park
Second St. West, Shabbona, Ill.
Filling the Old C. & N.W. Freight Depot with Ice. Fulton, Ill. Feb., 1908.
Rock River Scenery, Rocks above Dixon, Ill.
Lee Center, Ladies Aid Society
Maroons vs All-Stars 6/29/10
Karl L. Adams Hall
Miss. River from the Bluff - Fulton, Ill.
Lincoln of the Black Hawk War - Dixon, Illinois
The Dr. Mix Place, Oregon, Ill.
Thousand Islands - From Rock Ledge, Rock River Along the Black Hawk Trail Oregon, Illinois
Starved Rock, Formerly Ft. St. Louis
St. Peter's Chapel, Grand Detour, Illinois
Scene on Pistakee Lake Ill.
Main St. Homer Ill.
The Ice Harvest - Fulton, Ill.
Sep 28 1909 New School Building Lee Center
Horse Shoe Canyon, Starved Rock, Ill.
Pioneer Cabins - Illinois White Pines Forest State Park
'Recreation.--It's Lots of Fun Dancing.' Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill.