Thursday 29 January 2015

Large-Letter Postcards - part 5

These souvenir postcards were hugely popular in in the 1940s and 1950s in America. Companies like Curt Teich and Co. made cards representing every state and almost all the towns and cities (more than 10,000) in the country.


I have collected a digital archive of around 2000 Large Letter postcards, but won't be showing all those here. Instead I have chosen interesting examples from across the range of designs and locations represented.

For other examples see parts 1 - 4 also. This is part 5 of a 6 – part post on Large-Letter postcards:



Galena, Illinois

Galesburg, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Galesburg, Illinois

Geneva, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Glencoe, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Harvard, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Illinois

Joliet, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co. 1940

Joliet, Illinos

Kewanee, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

La Grange, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Lake Zurich, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Lewiston, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Libertyville, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Macomb, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Marengo, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Maywood, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

McHenry, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Metropolis, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Moline, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.
Mundelein, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Park Ridge, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Pekin, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Peoria, Illinois

Peoria, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Peoria, Illinois

River Forest, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Riverside, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Rock Island, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Rockford, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Rockford, Illinois

Skokie, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Springfield, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co. 1935

Starved Rock State Park, Illinois

Sterling and Rock Falls, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Vandalia, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Wauconda, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Waukegan, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co. 1946

Waycross, Georgia
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Waycross, Georgia


Willimantic, Connecticut
Curt Teich & Co. 1944

Wilmetts, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington, Delaware
Curt Teich & Co. 1937

Winslow Arizona
Curt Teich & Co. 1939

Woodstock, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Ybar City, Florida

Yosemite, California
Curt Teich & Co. 1939

Zion, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co. 1951

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