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St. Cloud, Minnesota State Reformatory
Still there, still open, though now under a different name: Minnesota Correctional Facility – St. Cloud. This is an unused Curteich-Chicago card 5B-H254, whose caption alone is worth the cost of the card: “…a grey granite wall which is the largest prison wall in the world and is only surpassed by the Great Wall of China…” and there’s more than that. Grade: 1

Code: 10124124
Price: $3.00
Minneapolis, St. Barnaba’s Hospital
Mailed in 1910, the stamp is missing but the postmark is there, along with some postmark ink transfer on the front. (Maybe there shouldn’t be an apostrophe in Barnabas.) Grade: 4

Code: 10124125
Price: $2.00
Rochester, St. Mary’s Hospital
The card was dated 1970 — at least the photo — and mailed in 1978 with 13-cent stamp and Rochester postmark. Serrated edges. Unusually, the caption doesn’t say where the hospital is, despite calling it “one of the largest privately owned hospitals in the world,” and we know from a quick search that it is now part of the Mayo Clinic. Dexter Press card 15X-DT-68284-C. Grade: 1

Code: 10124126
Price: $2.00
Stillwater, Minnesota State Prison
A quick search says the present facility was built in Bayport between 1910-1914, but we think this photo might represent something earlier. Not sure about that. Among prison postcards, this unused one is clearly very old (not sure when, but divided back) and in good condition. Grade: 1

Code: 10124127
Price: $4.00
Stillwater, Main Prison Gate
Mailed in 1909, with stamp and clear Minneapolis postmark. Another fine example of prison postcards, and the legend on the front (“Who enters here, leaves hope behind”) makes it clear that rehabilitation was not in their game plan then. Grade: 1

Code: 10124128
Price: $4.00
Rochester, New Mayo Clinic Diagnostic Building
Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone card 0C-H1715, mailed in 1951 (with stamp and Rochester postmark) while the building was still under construction. Hard to say who was under more stress: the card’s writer, or the building. Grade: 1

Code: 10124129
Price: $3.00
Stillwater
At least three locations named Stillwater exist in the USA (and one film), and we’ve no idea which one this semi-generic card is supposed to represent. So we’ll choose Minnesota, because it’s the largest. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10124130
Price: $0.50
Itasca State Park, Headwaters of the Mississippi River
The nicely understated caption on this unmailed card says “The river itself plays a great part in inland water transportation and flood control for our central states”. When droughts don’t dry it up, that is. Apart from the word “Keep” written into the stamp area (clearly they didn’t), the card is in good condition. Grade: 3

Code: 10124131
Price: $2.00
St.Paul, Como Park, “Gates Ajar”
One of many “skillfully arranged flower gardens,” as described in the caption of this unused Curteichcolor card 9B-K61 (K-10). Grade: 1

Code: 10124132
Price: $2.00
Yearling Black Bear
The bear? In the Northern Minnesota Wilderness. The postcard? Unused Dexter Press 57725-D (K-302). Grade: 1

Code: 10124133
Price: $1.00
Silver Bay, Palisade Head
Along the north shore of Lake Superior, we needed to look this up to be certain it is in Minnesota. It is, and part of a larger state park now. The card is unused, Curteichcolor 2C-K386 (K-72). Grade: 1

Code: 10124134
Price: $1.00
Walker, Greetings
Generic, unused, Curteich-Chicago linen card 6A-H2065 (S-414) sub-titled Hunter’s Dream. Aged but clean. Grade: 1

Code: 10124135
Price: $1.00
Itasca State Park, Headwaters of the Mississippi River
Different publishers use minor variations of this photo, and this caption, to describe a location we lived near but somehow never visited. So here’s a clear message to you: don’t put off seeing something famous in your neighbourhood. Unused Dexter Press card 38951-B from 1961. Grade: 1

Code: 10124136
Price: $3.00
Hello from Bigfork
Unusual for Curteichcolor (9C-K2770; CK-332) in that the edges resemble something attacked by pinking shears. Unused generic card. Grade: 1

Code: 10124137
Price: $1.00
Rochester, Scene in Public Park
Unused, old, placid postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 10124138
Price: $3.00
Minneapolis, Sailboats at Anchor in Lake Nokomis
Unused Dexter Press card 58919 (41-D-30). Grade: 1

Code: 10124139
Price: $1.00
Minneapolis, Crystal Court, IDS Center
IDS Center was completed in 1972, and for now is the tallest building in Minnesota at a height of 792 feet depending on how one measures it. IDS was constructed as the headquarters of Investors Diversified Services, Inc.—now Ameriprise Financial — and consists of five parts: the 57-story IDS Tower itself; an 8-story annex building; the 19-story Marquette Hotel; and a 2-story retail building originally dominated by Woolworth’s. These four buildings are joined by the 7-story Crystal Court as you see in the postcard. The unused card’s caption explains even more. Grade: 1

Code: 10124140
Price: $3.00
St. Paul, multiple views
… and those five views are all identified in the caption on the back of this card mailed in 1988 with 44-cent stamp and airmail sticker and two overlapping postmarks on top of all that. Grade: 2

Code: 10124141T
Price: $2.00
Minneapolis, Nicollet Mall
Mailed in what looks like 1975, with 18-cent commemorative, and postmark over a red air mail chop (two of those chops …) The card has serrated edges and it’s a minor irony that we were in exactly the same place at the same time as the sender was, though it had nothing to do with us. Grade: 1

Code: 10124142T
Price: $2.00

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