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Adams County, IL (41 items)

Adams County, IL (41 items)

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ADAMS COUNTY, ILLINOIS
  41 items      $95
  Established: January 13, 1825
  County seat: Quincy
  1900 population: 67,058

  • Adams  1912 4-bar on post card
  • Camp Point 1907 duplex on post card, view of Maplewood High School in Camp Point; 1910 cds with Chicago precancel stamp on post card
  • Fowler  1908 Doane [number off bottom] of post card
  • Golden 1954 Duplex (1)  on ham radio card W9WXK
  • Liberty 1912 4-bar on post card
  • Payson poor 1870s cds on 3¢ stamped envelope
  • Quincy 1945 Quincy Transfer Office duplex on post card; 1952 machine slogan for Defense Bonds on cover; 1970 machine slogan for Children’s Dental Health on cover; 1984 machine cancel on cover.  
  • Post cards:  Illinois State Bank [c.1930]; Hotel Newcomb [c.1905, 2 horse-drawn vehicles, small tear bottom repaired by tape; Park Hotel & coffee shop [sepia, c.1930]; Blessing Hospital [linen]; St. Mary’s Hospital 2 linen views]; Hillcrest Sanitarium [2 views c.1930]; Post office, with 5 horse-drawn vehicles [c.1905]; Post office and Custom House [linen]; Franklin School [sepia, 1907]; High School (1906); New High School (2 linen views, one1938); First Christian church [linen]; Municipal Bathing Pool [linen]; 3 linen South Park scenes; Mississippi River Dam no. 21 [linen]; New Soldiers Memorial Bridge [linen]
  • Shawneetown 1968 FD of Illinois sesquicentennial stamp on cacheted cover.
  • Soldiers and Sailors Home (overview,1913; early view c.1910; Infirmary [linen]; Hospital [1911]; Pond [2 linen views]; Flower gardens [c.1912] 
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