Hartford County, CT (63 items)

  Established: May 10, 1666

Avon  Post card:  Old Farms Inn [chrome]

Bristol  1972 machine cancel on cover.  

Post card: Bristol Clock Museum [chrome]

Burnside  (1863-1930) 1911 cds on post card view of Harriet Beecher Stow house

Canton Center  c.1880 unreadable cancel on cover, “Benj. F. Case, Maplewood Farm” corner; 1915 4-bar on post card

East Granby  1970 machine cancel on cover

East Windsor  (   -1982) perfect 1982 4-bar on cover

Forestville  Post card:  Veteran’s Green memorial

Granby  1880s cds on cover, illustrated return from State Grange, opened rough left; 1970 machine cancel on cover

Hartford 1856 cds on cover; c.1880 duplex on cover; 1906 machine cancel on post card, also Silver Bay N.Y. Rec’d; 1929 machine cancel on cover; 1929 double circle Postage Permit on cover, “Phoenix Insurance C.” corner; 1972 machine cancel on cover

Station A  1907 Flag cancel on cover, “ Pratt & Whitney Co.” corner

Bicentennial Sta.  July 4, 1976 special postmark on post card

Post cards:  Traveler’s Tower [linen]; “View North from Municipal Building” [linen, postal markings on front]; “Orient Insurance Co. Building” [1908]; Hotel America [chrome]; Hotel Bond [1919]; City Hall [1906]; “New City Hall” [c.1915]; Trinity College [linen]; Mark Twain Memorial [3 views, one linen, two chrome]; Aetna Insurance Co. Building [hand colored]; “Horace Bushnell Memorial” [B&W]; St. Joseph Cathedral [chrome]; Harriet Beecher Stowe house [2 views, one linen, one chrome]; ”View of Bushnell Park” with Memorial Arch [7 similar but different views, c.1910]; Colt Memorial [c.1910]; Elizabeth Park [2 linen views]; State Capitol [hand colored]

Hazardville Sta. 1982 4 bar on cover, tear through postmark.  

Post card:  St. Marys Episcopal Church [B&W]

Manchester   Post card:  Mary Cheney Library [chrome]

New Britain 1915 machine cancel on cover, “The Stanley Works” corner;  1971 machine slogan “New Britain Centennial 1871-1971” on cover; 1975 machine slogan “Fight TB and other Respiratory Diseases” on cover.  

Post cards:  Central Connecticut State College [chrome]; First Baptist Church [c.1910]

North Granby 1971 machine cancel on cover

Rainbow  (1850-1916)  1900? Doane 2 on post card, view of City Hall & horse-drawn vehicles

Rockyhill  1909 duplex on cover.  

Post card:  Dinosaur State Park dome [chrome]

Poquonock 1971 machine cancel on cover

Silver Lake (1882-1930) poor 1913 4-bar, no stamp, on post card

Simsbury  Westminster School chapel [chrome]

Southington   Post card:  South End School [chrome]

West Hartford   Post card:  Noah Webster home [linen[

Windsor  1971 machine cancel on cover, Ardery Chevrolet corner.  

Post card:  Oliver Ellsworth Homestead [chrome]