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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.

Public Library DeKalb, Ill.
Interior View of Barracks, Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill.
View Near Lee Center
'Elk Rock' on Rock River Along the Black Hawk Trail - Oregon, Illinois
The Wishing Well - Illinois White Pines Forest State Park
Public Library De Kalb, Ill.
Horse Shoe Canyon, Starved Rock, Ill.
Untitled
Congregational Church - Kirkland - Ill
Dr. Broughton's Sanitarium and Grounds, Rockford, Ill.
Glidden Memorial Hospital, DeKalb, Ill.
East Lincoln Highway Alt. U. S. #30, De Kalb, Ill.
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
I. L. Ellwood's Residence, DeKalb, Ill.
Road to Normal School, DeKalb, Ill.
U. S. Post Office, DeKalb, Ill.
View on Franklin Creek, Near Franklin Grove, Ill.
Black Hawk Statue
The Browne House
Illinois Starved Rock State Park Hotel
Rock River Scenery, Rocks above Dixon, Ill.
Scene on Pistakee Lake Ill.
Main St. Homer Ill.
The Dr. Mix Place, Oregon, Ill.
Second St. West, Shabbona, Ill.