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Chicago, Coliseum
Mailed in 1933 with stamp, most of the postmark, and readable message. Significant postmark transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 10114043
Price: $7.00
Chicago, Jack-Knife Bridge
Mailed in 1907 with stamp and almost all the postmark, the card is fully readable on both sides but very heavily aged, especially on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10114044
Price: $9.00
Chicago, Coliseum
From Suhling Company of Chicago, this card mailed in 1908 with stamp and nearly all of the postmark. We love cryptic messages. Grade: 3

Code: 10114045
Price: $8.00
Chicago, Lake Shore Drive
Mailed in 1906, stamp and postmark are there. Grade: 3

Code: 10114046
Price: $8.00
Moline, 15th Street Looking North
From 1912, stamp and full postmark. Very heavily aged, but you can read the message and imagine being there. Grade: 3

Code: 10114047
Price: $9.00
Morrison, Waterworks Park
Mailed in 1908, with stamp and parts of two different postmarks. Grade: 3

Code: 10114048
Price: $6.00
Chicago, A Beautiful Vista in Humboldt Park
V.O. Hammon card 1986, mailed in 1913 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 10114049
Price: $3.00
Chicago, Washington Park, Washington Statue
Mailed in 1907, two postmarks are there but the stamp is long gone. Grade: 4

Code: 10114050
Price: $2.00
Chicago Railroad Fair 1949, World’s Fastest Locomotive
Collectors of railroad postcards shouldn’t let this one go. Unused card whose captions on front and reverse explain everything. Grade: 1

Code: 10114051
Price: $6.00
Chicago, Jackson Park, Japanese Houses
Mailed in 1910, with postmark but without stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 10114052
Price: $2.00
Salt Creek near Hinsdale
With a very long message on both sides–almost a slice of personal history–the card was mailed in 1910 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 10114053
Price: $4.00
Rushville’s Old School Building, Burned, 1893
Here’s the short story: there is more than one Rushville, but this old card doesn’t have any attribution, or say which one. A kind gentleman who owns a superb website in Rushville, Nebraska says it wasn’t their school. Then a kind lady from the Rushville (Indiana) library said: no, not us, it’s Illinois! Unused and heavily aged. Grade: 2

Code: 10114054
Price: $5.00
Chicago, Lincoln Park, Animal House
Mailed in 1915 with stamp and full postmark. Heavily aged. Grade: 3 (barely)

Code: 10114055
Price: $4.00
Greetings from Chicago
The front of this mailed postcard is in better condition than the reverse. The stamp is gone, and the 1910 postmark is mostly readable. As for the card, it looks like it had been lightly glued into an album. The locations on the front: Masonic Temple, Seal Pond in Lincoln Park, and the U.S. Grant Memorial, also in Lincoln Park. Grade: 4

Code: 10114056
Price: $5.00
Chicago World’s Fair by Illumination
Mailed in 1947, the card has a stamp and full Washington DC postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10114057
Price: $5.00
Chicago Public Library Bldg.
Unused old and unattributed postcard. Grade: 2

Code: 10114058
Price: $3.00
Chicago, The WGN Studios
Two of these unused, Curteich-Chicago linen cards 1B-H2102 are available, showing one of the U.S.A.’s earliest radio stations. Grades: 2

Code: 10114059
Price: $3.00
Chicago, WGN’s Radio Station Studio Building
Unused, old, and authentic B&W view of this early radio station. The card is stained on both sides and has a small portion of the upper right front corner missing. Grade: 5

Code: 10114060
Price: $4.00
Chicago, Eitel Old Heidelberg
At 14 West Randolph, the 1934 restaurant is long-gone, replaced successively by a variety of commercial establishments. This card is unused and heavily aged but otherwise in good condition. Grade: 3

Code: 10114061
Price: $5.00
Chicago, Masonic Temple
Mailed in 1906 with stamp and full postmark. This card was published by Western News Company of Chicago, Leipzig, and Dresden. Grade: 1

Code: 10114062
Price: $6.00
Chicago, Brookfield Zoo, Giant Panda
Unused C.T. Art-Colortone linen postcard 8A-H404 (and 168), and when you see the odd caption you will know how appearances (and postcards) can deceive. Grade: 1

Code: 10114063
Price: $3.00
Springfield, The Palmer Sanatorium
We understand this sanatorium operated from 1913-1953, for treatment of tuberculosis. The card is unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10114064
Price: $4.00
Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History
Unused, aging, unattributed card. Grade: 2

Code: 10114065
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History
Unused, aging, unattributed card. Grade: 2

Code: 10114066
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Blackstone Theatre, Life with Father
Unused card with one perforated edge, indicating that it had been part of a set. Grade: 1

Code: 10114067
Price: $0.50
Chicago, Lake Shore Drive, from American Airlines
Unused card T151-9. Grade: 1

Code: 10114068
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Adler Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, Tellurion Clock
Full credit to Wikipedia for this definition: “A tellurion (also spelled tellurian), is a clock, typically of French or Swiss origin, surmounted by a mechanism that depicts how day, night and the seasons are caused by the movement of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the sun. The clock normally also displays the age of the moon, and the four-year (perpetual) calendar. It is related to the orrery, which illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the solar system in a heliocentric model. The word tellurion derives from the Latin tellus, meaning Earth.” We just thought you wanted to know. Unused sepia card, highly aged. Grade: 2

Code: 10114069
Price: $1.00
Chicago, Art Institute
Unused B&W card with various pencilled notations on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10114070
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Buckingham Fountain
Unused sepia “Real photograph” card from “G.M.G. Publishing Co. (Not Inc.)” of Chicago. Grade: 2

Code: 10114071
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Elk’s Memorial
Two of these unused Cameo Greeting Card Co. linen cards K 2344 are available. Grades: 2

Code: 10114072
Price: $1.00
Chicago, Scene in Garfield Park
Unused V.O. Hammon Pub. Co. card No. 234, heavily aged. Grade: 2

Code: 10114074
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Garfield Park, Amedea Monument
This is a puzzle for us. As part of our routine research on cards, we went to the search engines but after many dead-ends on this one, we gave up. Where is this now? What is its real name? Help! The card: B&W, Rotograph Co. D28050, unused, highly aged. Grade: 2

Code: 10114075
Price: $1.00
Chicago, Lincoln Park, New Refectory, Boathouse and Assembly Rooms
“Refectory” sounds so formal but we learn from the search engine that it just means “dining room,” particularly for a monastery or academic institution–and Lincoln Park is neither of those. The value in the unused postcard is that the front looks very good. But it had been pasted into an album, and the reverse is damaged. Grade: 4

Code: 10114076
Price: $1.00
Chicago, Marshall Field & Co. Grill Room
Elegant dining in the department store, captured in this card mailed in 1910 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 10114077
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Montgomery Ward & Co. Building
Mailed in 1907 with stamp and three postmarks: two from the sending post office, and one from the receiving end. Grade: 2

Code: 10114078
Price: $3.00
Chicago, The Palmer House
Now a Hilton, and called by at least one source the “longest continually operating hotel in North America,” the online reviews are great fun to read. Without doubt the property has been there, staid and solid, as long as anyone can remember. Two unattributed cards are available, one unused (Grade: 1, $1) and one mailed in May 1941 with stamp and postmark and wildly inappropriate message (Grade: 2, $2).

Code: 10114079
Price: $2.00
Chicago, New Postoffice Building
Unused card from V.O. Hammon (No. 71). Grade: 2

Code: 10114080
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Monument and Tomb of Stephen Douglas
Postcard collecting was popular when this card was mailed in 1908, with stamp and postmark, as the message attests. Grade: 3

Code: 10114081
Price: $2.00
Chicago, The Stevens
But now The Hilton Chicago, first opened in 1927 and the third largest in the city as of this writing. Unused B&W card with a quaint notation printed in the postage area: “Hand to Floor Clerk for Free Mailing.” Aging. Grade: 2

Code: 10114082
Price: $1.00
Chicago, Palmer House
Unused Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone linen card 0C-H483, published after The Palmer House had become A Hilton Hotel. Grade: 2

Code: 10114083
Price: $1.00

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