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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.

Lee Center, Ladies Aid Society
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Lee Center, Lee Center, Ill. The Ladyes aid at Mrs Eliza Kings [home], Lee, Residential, People, Women and Gender
Miss. River from the Bluff - Fulton, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Fulton, Miss Emma Lambert. Sent To: Miss Helen Baldwin, S. Second St.,DeKalb, Ill., Whiteside, Commercial/Business, Residential, Place, Economic Development
Thousand Islands - From Rock Ledge, Rock River Along the Black Hawk Trail Oregon, Illinois
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Oregon, Ogle, Place
Starved Rock, Formerly Ft. St. Louis
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Starved Rock, formerly Ft. St. Louis.--Discovered by Marquette and Joliet in 1673, fortified by Tonti and De la Salle in 1682, abandoned in 1702, and is the first white settlement in Illinois, now famous summer resort near Ottawa, Utica, La Salle and Peru, Ill. Sept 21,-11 Dear Mary, am at Lasalle a nice trip and nice scenery. Yours, TJA Sent To: Mrs T. J. Adams, Dekalb, Ills, Place, Starved Rock State Park
Business Section, Dixon, Illinois
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Dixon, BUSINESS SECTION, DIXON, ILLINOIS Looking North on Galena Street., Lee, Commercial/Business, Place
Excavating for I.O.O.F. Hall, Lee Center, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Excavating for I.O.O.F. Hall, Lee Center, Ill., ca. April 1913. See #199-139, Industrial, People, Place
Karl L. Adams Hall
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Karl L. Adams Hall at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, is the campus home of 160 women students. This view here is from the northwest., DeKalb, Educational, Place, Normal Road, Education, Women and Gender
The Sentinel Illinois White Pines Forest State Park
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Ogle, Place
Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, 1104 State, DeKalb, Il, DeKalb, Religious, Place, Religion
The Ice Harvest - Fulton, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Fulton, Sent To: Miss Helen Baldwin, DeKalb, Illinois, 523 S. 2nd. St., Whiteside, Commercial/Business, Industrial, People, Place, Agriculture, Economic Development
Sep 28 1909 New School Building Lee Center
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Lee Center, Lee, Educational, People, Place, Education
Dixon, Ill. Power Dam and Falls
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Dixon, The dam at Dixon supplies water power for the electric power plant, which furnishes power for the city and interurban railway, and also for a number of manufacturing industries., Lee, Industrial, Residential, Place, Economic Development
Maroons vs All-Stars 6/29/10
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Lee Center, Lee Center, Ill. 1910. Maroons vs All-Stars, 6/29/10 [score] 13-9, Lee, People, Place, Entertainment
Filling the Old C. & N.W. Freight Depot with Ice. Fulton, Ill. Feb., 1908.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Fulton, Sent To: Miss Helen Baldwin, DeKalb,Ill., Whiteside, Commercial/Business, Industrial, People, Place, Agriculture, Economic Development
Lincoln of the Black Hawk War - Dixon, Illinois
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Dixon, Lee, Monumental, Place
St. Peter's Chapel, Grand Detour, Illinois
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Grand Detour, ST. PETER'S CHAPEL, GRAND DETOUR, ILLINOIS. This church, now a chapel of St. Luke's Episcopal parish of Dixon, Illinois, is the second oldest Episcopal church in the Diocese of Chicago. The cornerstone was laid on June 17, 1849., Ogle, Religious, Place, Religion
Main Street. Dekalb, Ills.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Looking west down Main Street from 4th Street, DeKalb., DeKalb, Commercial/Business, Place, Lincoln Highway, Main Street, Economic Development
View of Science Building, Library and 'Old Castle'
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, View of SCIENCE BUILDING, LIBRARY and 'OLD CASTLE'. This panorama of the three major buildings on the campus at Northern Illinois State Teachers College, DeKalb, Illinois, places the science building on the left, the Swen F. Parson library in the center, and the main administration building, the 'Old castle' on the right., DeKalb, Educational, Place, Normal School, Education
Williston Hall, Northern Illinois State Normal School. DeKalb, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, DeKalb, Educational, Place, Normal School, Education
South Main St. Looking North, Rockford, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Rockford, 9-4-19 Spending a day of vacation here. Y. Cooper Sent To: B S Cooper, Union, Missouri, Winnebago, Commercial/Business, Place, Main Street, Economic Development
First Street, Dixon, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Dixon, From my dear Tom, Aug. 20, '07, Lee, Commercial/Business, Place, First Street, Economic Development
North First Street from State, Rockford, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Rockford, Rockford, May 18, where you see the cross is where we roomed before we came to the store to room. This is a side st., Winnebago, Commercial/Business, Residential, Place, First Street, Economic Development
Withrow Rustic Bridge, Rockford, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Rockford, Winnebago, Place
'Charge!'--Strenuous Exercise. Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Rockford, Winnebago, Government, People, Camp Grant
Blue Rock, Near Dixon, Ill.
Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University, Dixon, Lee, Place