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Lot of 6 Vtg Linen Postcards Winona Lake IN Greenfield Village Bagnell Dam DC — photo 1 of 13

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Lot of 6 vintage US view postcards from Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Florida and Washington, D.C., mostly linen and white-border era. Standard postcard size. Five are unposted; the Hollywood, Florida card was mailed from Fort Lauderdale in 1952. Condition is mixed: four are clean with light wear, the Hollywood card has writing and a postmark, and the Kokomo card has heavy staining and paper loss on the back with foxing on the front.

• Winona Lake's Happy Family, Tabernacle in Background, Winona Lake, Ind. - swans on the water, no. 24. Natural Color Card made by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee. Unposted, light wear.

• Clinton Inn, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan - linen, code 9A-H1671. Curteich C.T. Art-Colortone, published exclusively for the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Unposted.

• Aerial View of Bagnell Dam and Lake of the Ozarks, Lakeside - code 2A1514, Lon Stanton, Lake Ozark, Mo.; C.T. American Art Colored back. Unposted.

• Royal Palm Lined Hollywood Boulevard by Moonlight, Hollywood, Florida - linen, F41, Tichnor Bros. for Miami Post Card Co. Postmarked Fort Lauderdale Dec 9 1952 with a 2-cent John Adams stamp and a handwritten message.

• 200 - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - linen, code 1B-H56, Scenic Art Series, B.S. Reynolds Co.; Curteich back. Unposted.

• 19. Soldiers Monument, Kokomo, Ind. - white border, published by Harry H. Hamm, Toledo, Ohio. Heavy back stain with paper loss, foxing on front.