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A variety of downloads which don't fall into the railroad or broadcasting categories, including presentations from the Historic American Building Survey at the Library of Congress.
folder icon 38 Iowa Postcards

In the days before television and rapid transportation, penny postcards were a common way for friends to keep in touch, and to see places where they never had been and might never go. The cards, to a great degree, reflected the artistic style of the times--particularly the back of the card, (below) where the message and address were written.

These postcards, from the collection of my grandmother, the late Marguerite Fancher Kline, are all from the period around 1910. They center around four communities in Eastern Iowa: Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, North English, and Deep River. We'll begin in Iowa City.

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