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Roddick Gates, McGill University, Montreal (Canada)
Unused card dates from 1967. Grade: 1
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Guadalajara (Mexico) University
This really oversized card was mailed in 1999 and has two stamps intact, with partial postmark. Corners show minor bending, and there’s one small indistinct tear on one edge. Grade: 3
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College du Saint-Espirit (Burundi)
B&W card, locally produced, never mailed. Front is about as it was when it was new, but this was never a beautiful card. Reverse has aged and has a small price marked in upper right corner. Grade: 3
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Kwangsi Institute for Nationalities (China)
Unused card from 1970s. Grade: 1
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Air Force Academy chapel (Colorado, USA)
From the 1970s, unused Dexter Presss card #4350 (10×17574-C) with serrated edges and an inked indication on reverse that the organ has 5000+ pipes. Front is as-new. Grade: 3
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Boys Town (Nebraska, USA)
Plastichrome card P61962 from mid-1960s, unused and aging a bit, with one minor corner crease not really visible. Grade: 2
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University (Villahermosa, Mexico)
Card is heavily aging but unused and undamaged otherwise. Grade: 2
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Norman Staircase, King’s School (Canterbury, UK)
Card mailed in 1970, with stamp and also with blue airmail sticker affixed. Postmark not really legible. Grade: 2
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Univ. of Southern California, Tommy Trojan
Unmailed card from the mid-1960s, Tommy has seen his share of ups and downs. Grade: 2
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Arizona State University, stadium (USA)
Card mailed in 1994, with 40-cent soccer World Cup stamp and full postmark. Mild but unimportant abrasion on reverse, not defacing anything. Grade: 2
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Arizona State University (Tempe)
Two of these Petley cards (81354) are available, both mailed in 1967 and in identical condition. Card describes the auditorium as the “Last Large Design of Frank Lloyd Wright”. Grades: 1
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Stanford University, East Gate (California, USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C2961 from 50+ years ago. Hoover Library is in the background. Grade: 1
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U.S. Air Force Academy, Cadet Chapel (Colorado Springs, USA)
This is the single building on that campus that always appears on postcards. God would be pleased. Unused card 2DK-1671 (591). Grade: 1
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Univ. of Minnesota, Northrup (Minneapolis, USA)
Plastichrome P21163 unused card from the 1960s. A little bit of crease on upper left front corner, and starting to age on the back. Grade: 3
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Univ. of Minnesota, Northrup Auditorium (Minneapolis)
Colorscans/NMN/R.A. Young card mailed internationally in 1990 with two large 25-cent commemorative stamps and full postmark. Some age mottling on the reverse but still excellent on the front. Grade: 2
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
To be precise, this is the East Bank campus, showing Northrop Auditorium, Coffman Memorial Union, and the Mississippi River–among other buildings we used to know well. Unused card,
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Univ. of Minnesota, West Bank (Minneapolis)
From the 1960s, an unused Plastichrome card P56761 (also UM-304) showing the “ultra-modern” School of Business Administration and the Social Science Building. Grade: 2
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Univ. of Southern California (Los Angeles)
For all you Trojans, this unused Theo Sohmer/Western Publishing card (L.A. 63) (A-62002) that would have cost you one cent to send it to Cuba. Those deals are long gone, aren’t they? Fight on!! Grade: 2
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Univ. of Southern California and Exposition Park (USA)
Unused Western Publishing card (L-106) with a view little changed over the years. Grade: 2
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Carillon Tower (Madison)
From the 1960s, unused Fagan Publishing card 14309. Just slightly aging. Grade: 2
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Coll. of Agriculture (Madison)
Unused Fagan Publishing Co. card 16060 from the 1960s, showing also Henry Mall. Grade: 2
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Univ. of Wisconsin, aerial view (Milwaukee)
Unused but slightly aging card from the 1960s, from L.L. Cook Co. with two reference numbers: 345Z and 81741. Grade: 2
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Main Building (Milwaukee)
From the series, another unused 1960s card (printed date 1959) by L.L. Cook Co., 26676-B and 261Z as reference numbers. Grade: 2
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Bolton Hall (Milwaukee)
Unused L.L. Cook card 426-C and 351-Z (why do they do this?) from the 1960s. Bolton Hall is/was the Social Sciences Building and we spent a lot of time there. The card is mottling heavily on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Student Union (Milwaukee)
L.L. Cook unused card 427-C (and 352-Z) from the 1960s. There are abrasions on the front, and aging on reverse. Grade: 3
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Mitchell Hall (Milwaukee)
The last in our 1960s series from this university. Unused L.L. Cook Co. card 425-C and 350-Z. Grade: 2
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Tuskegee Institute, G.W. Carver grave (Alabama, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 36724 from the 1960s. Grade: 1
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Wake Forest College (USA)
It’s an unused Dexter Press card WS-4 35639-B card from the mid-1960s that looks as new today as the day it was bought. Grade: 1
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North Carolina A and T, Bluford Library (USA)
Unmailed Dexter Press card 54379-B from the mid-1960s. It has little bumps around the corners and is beginning to show its age on the reverse. But–and with apologies to this fine school–it’s probably going to appeal only to collectors of library postcards. Grade: 3
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St. Joseph’s College (Indiana, USA)
Dextone card 43327 of this Catholic college conducted by the Society of the Precious Blood. The card is unmailed, has a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the reverse, and has a crease on lower right front corner. Grade: 5
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Hebron Public School (Indiana, USA)
Absolutely classical view of the prototypical middle-American school in the 1940s and 50s. If it’s still there, and still looks like this, forgive us, but if you’re of a certain age you know we’re right. The card was not mailed, but has a travel agent’s rubber stamp on reverse, along with a pencilled date of December 15th, 1954. Curteich card 2C103. Grade: 4
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University of Montreal (Canada)
An old, unused, and somewhat grim-looking real-photo card that makes the university look like an architect’s model. The 1960s card pre-dates computer-generated views but how in the world did they get the picture to look like this? Grade: 2
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Univ. of Montreal (Canada)
This card did have an address on it at one time, because it was mailed (with a 4-cent stamp, and clearly postmarked) in 1966. But the address is gone. The caption says this university has “six and one-half miles of corridors,” which must make it a lot of fun to go from class to class on time. Grade: 3
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Institut Teknologi Mara (Malaysia)
This card was issued by the school itself, and was mailed probably in the late 1980s. The stamp is there, and part of a postmark. Ink smudging on the front. Grade: 4
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Institut Teknologi MARA (Malaysia)
This card was issued by the school itself, and was mailed probably in the late 1980s. The Selangor stamp is there, and part of a postmark. Grade: 2
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Institut Teknologi MARA (Malaysia)
This card was issued by the school itself, and was mailed probably in the late 1980s. The stamp is there, and part of a postmark. And if you’re interested, this building is Bangunan Kajian Perniagaan. Grade: 2
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Univ. of North Dakota (USA)
We visited again recently, and the campus is a lot more modern now–but if you live there, you know that already. This unused Curteichcolor card 6DK-1783 from the 1960s is yellowing a little on the reverse but otherwise unmarked. Grade: 2
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Univ. of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA)
This unused Dexter Press card 63706-B is from the 1960s, and shows Our Lady of Fatima Shrine. Grade: 2
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Mass. Institute of Technology
Nice unused Tichnor Brothers, Lockwood Studios, Lusterchrome card K-5608 (sounds like the opening credits for a movie, doesn’t it?) from the mid-1960s, showing Harvard Bridge and lots of smokestacks. Grade: 1
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Univ. of West Virginia (USA)
Unused Valley News Agency card 25498 from the 1960s. Yes, it’s the Old Campus. Grade: 1