Polk County, IA (40 items)

POLK COUNTY, IOWA

40 items      

Established: January 13, 1846

County seat: Des Moines

1900 population: 82,624

Adelphi  (1856-1935)  Fine 1911 4-bar on post card

Bondurant  1977? 4-bar on cover

Clive  (1888-1972) 1972 4-bar on cover

Des Moines  c.1860s cds & target killer with “Due 3” on cover; 1873 cds on Postal Card; 1907 machine cancel overstruck Sheridan, Wyo. on post card, corner damage; 1908 machine dial as rec. mark on front of real photo portrait made into post card; 1938 4-bar on Postal Card; 1959 machine slogan, “Help Goodwill Industries” on 1960 machine cancel on slightly oversized cover, Special Delivery stamp; 1961 machine cancel, “5” in dial, cachet “First Flight Jet Mail Service” on cover, Newark NJ A.M.F. backstamp; 1962 machine cancel, “2” in dial, on small cover; 1979 Papal Visit pictorial cancel on cover; 1981 round dater as send mark on cover; 1981 machine slogan “National Flag Day” on cover; unused Postal Stationery cover, printed James W. Young, M.D. corner

Post cards:  Bird’s-eye view [1908]; “View of Business Section [c.1910]; “Skyline” [c.1955, chrome]; Downtown bridges [linen]; “Aerial View of Bankers Life” [chrome]; Bankers Life Building, Home Office” [linen]; Equitable Building [1913], postal scuffs on front; Iowa Lutheran Hospital” [c.1950]; Methodist Hospital [c.1910]; Meredith Publishing [2 similar views, c.1920]; Drake University Administration Building [chrome]; Municipal Court, Capitol in background;  “State Fair Grounds” [chrome]; “Ingersoll Park” [1909]; State Capitol [chrome]

Dodge B  c.1910 Flag Cancel on post card view of aviary

Elkhart  1978 4-bar on cover

Farrar  (1904-1959) 1959 4-bar on LD cover

Fort Des Moines  (1904-1955) 1910 Rec’d mark on post card from Piedmont, S. Dakota; light 1935 machine cancel on soiled cover, corner emblem “US C.C.C., opened rough right into stamp

Mitchellville  1976 4-bar on cover

Runnels  readable 1910 duplex on post card; 1976 4-bar on cover

West Des Moines  1972 machine cancel on cover