Lot of 3 vintage postcards, all mailed to Marie Wallin in Champaign, Illinois, between 1935 and 1942 — two linen cards and one sepia collotype view. Standard postcard size. All three are posted with stamps, postmarks and handwritten messages; light age toning and edge wear, condition varies card to card.

• Lorain Carnegie Bridge and Union Terminal, Cleveland, Ohio. Linen card No. 19 / 63570, Braun Art Publishing Co., Cleveland, Tichnor Quality Views. Posted with a Railway Post Office (R.P.O.) cancel dated May 27 1939, addressed to Dr. Marie Wallen (sic), Champaign. Back text describes the bridge as 4,430 feet long with six lanes of traffic.
• Hiawatha Island and South Bay, Star Lake, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y. Sepia view, Albertype Co., Brooklyn, published by The Gift Shop, Star Lake. Posted Antwerp, N.Y., Aug 8 1935; message mentions trips around the lake.
• Moonlight lake scene, S-358. Curteich Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone linen, C.T. Moonlight Scenes series, code 4A-H226. Posted Tomahawk, Wis., Aug 1942 with a 1 cent For Defense stamp.

A nice small group following one Illinois woman's mail through the late 1930s and early war years. Please see all photos, fronts and backs.