Kane County, IL (50 items)

KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS
  50 items      $135
  Established: January 16, 1836
  County seat: Geneva
  1900 population: 78,792

• Aurora  c.1880 cds on cover; 1896 duplex on cover; 1908 Flag cancel on nice view of Hotel Arthur; 1913 Columbia machine cancel on cover, Geneva Ill Rec’d on back.  
• Post cards: Memorial Bridge and downtown [2 views, one linen, one pmkd. 1955]; Hotel Aurora [c.1920]; Aurora-Leland Hotel [c.1930]; Metzger’s A-1 Cabins [B&W]; Public Library [white border, c.1940]; West Aurora High School [1905]; “Grist Mill at Pioneer Farm” [chrome]; “Old Dutch Windmill... near Aurora” [linen]
• Batavia  1909 duplex on post card, view of East Side High School; poor 1965 Pray for Peace slogan on 3x5 card.  Post card:  Batavia Avenue [c.1910]
• Big Rock  1913 4-bar on post card; 1965 machine cancel on 3x5 card
• Burlington  1968 4-bar 4-bar on 3x5 card
• Carpentersville  1909 duplex on post card; 1972 machine cancel on cover
• Dundee  1911 duplex on post card; 1923 date-out duplex on post card.  
• Post cards:  Jonacre Farm, aerial view [real photo]; Dundee-Carpentersville High School [real photo, 1950s]
• Elgin 1890 duplex on cover; 1893 duplex on 2¢ Columbian stamp, “The Western House, J.L. Van Meter, Proprietor; 1900 machine cancel on post card; Time-Cummins 1912 machine cancel on Postal card.  
• Post cards:  Al’s Cafe [chrome]; “Elgin National Watch Co. [white border, c.1930]; City Hall [2 horse-drawn vehicles]; Franklin School [1912]; Judson College campus [chrome]; Gifford’s Park “Where First House in Elgin Stood” [1911]; Lord’s Park [4 views, one B&W, 1906, one 1923, one c.1930. one linen 1951]
• Gilberts  1965 4-bar on 3x5 card 
• Lafox  1965 machine cancel on 3x5 card
• Mooseheart  Post cards: Mooseheart School and student body, “The School That Trains for Life” [1921]; Order of Moose School rotunda [linen]; Mooseheart Lake and dam [2 views, one linen, one c.1930]
• North Aurora  1910 4-bar on post card
• Saint Charles  1968 machine slogan “Pray for Peace” on post card [Sweden House Smorgasbord, Naperville].  Post cards:  State Bank of St. Charles [chrome]; “Hotel Baker and Main Street Bridge” [1957]
• Sugar Grove  1911 4-bar on post card [view of St. Mary’s church, Aurora]
• Wasco  c.1910 4-bar on post card