Lot of 5 vintage postcards, all sent or inscribed to members of the Dixon family of Pana, Illinois: four 1940s-1950 travel views from Colorado, Wyoming and Iowa plus an earlier Happy New Year greeting. Standard 3.5 x 5.5 in. All show age wear; the Spanish Peaks card has a diagonal crease, the Lincoln Highway card is heavily creased with surface cracking and a small loss, and the New Year card has a vertical stain streak.

• Famous Spanish Peaks, Landmarks of Southern Colorado, No. 2326, Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, C.T. Art-Colortone linen. Posted Rocky Ford, Colo. Sep 1950 with Paris, Ill. receiving mark. Long pencil road-trip message: a flat tire, Denver twice, 600 miles in a day.
• Scenic Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park, horseback riders at a bridge, E.C. Kropp 14227N linen. Posted Greeley, Colo. Jul 18 1947, signed Eloise and Dad.
• Telephone Canon on Lincoln Highway between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyo., Sanborn Souvenir Co. Posted Reno, Nev. Sep 1949 with a Prevent Forest Fires slogan cancel; pencil message mentions the old trail and the cycle.
• Floral Scene in Beautiful Crapo Park, Burlington, Iowa, Curt Teich C.T. Art-Colortone linen, code 8A-H2633. Posted Burlington May 3 1942, stamp removed; message from brother Bill.
• With Best Good Wishes, A Happy New Year, snowy church village at night, No. 406, Made in U.S.A., unposted, inscribed Earl Dixon from Maxine Morrison.

One small-town Illinois family's mail, kept together.