Saint Clair County, IL (46 items)

SAINT CLAIR COUNTY, ILLINOIS

46 items

Established: April 27, 1790

County seat: Belleville      

1900 population: 86,685

Belleville 106 duplex on post card, nice view “Glen Addie’s Orphan Home” [B&W]; 1907 machine cancel partly off top of post card; 1922 machine cancel on post card; 1965 machine cancel on 3x5 cared.  

Post cards: Public Square and night [linen]; Town House Motel [1950s]; Academy of Notre Dame [chrome]

Cahokia S (East St. Louis] poor 1965 double circle on 3x5 card

Caseyville  1962 4-bar on 3x5 card

East Carondolet  1962 duplex on 3x5 card

East St. Louis  1906 duplex on post card, Marthasville Mo. Rec’d; 1907 machine on cover, ratty right; 1908 duplex on post card, Marthasville, Mo. rec. mark; 1920s machine cancel on cover, “National Railway Instruction Bureau corner; 1940 machine on cover; 1974 machine on cover [better example as backstamp].  

Post cards:  St, Mary’s Hospital [linen]; City Hall [1910]; Hawthorne School [linen]; “Longfellow Public School [1908]; “Air View of Parks College” [linen]; St. Joseph Church  [B&W]

Edgemont S (East St. Louis) 1964 double circle as backstamp on 3x5 card

Fairview Heights B (Caseyville) 1967 round dater on 3x5 card

Fireworks B (East St. Louis)  1942 round dater on cover, overstruck E. St. Louis

Freeburg  Post card:  “Kendall’s Green Mill Cafe” [B&W]

French Village (1841-1910)  1909 4-bar on post card, view of E. St. Louis Church of Christ

Lebam 1908 duplex on post card

Lenzburg  1908 duplex on post card

Marissa  Post cards:  “Marissa Public School” [B&W, c.1910]; Township High School (B&W, c.1910]

Mascoutah 1922 duplex on Postal Card; 1928 undecipherable RPO on cover, “E. Pfeifer & Son” (monuments illustrated corner; 1971 machine cancel on cover

Millstadt  1908 4-bar on post card

New Athens  Post cards: (all real photo) City Hall; Public High School; St. Johns Evangelical Church; Kaskaskia River bridge

Plaza S (Belleville)  1965 round dater on 3x5 card, FD of postal station

Saint Libory  1968 4-bar on unstamped 3x5 card

Scott Air Force Base 1959 machine cancel on small cover; 1971 machine cancel on cover; 1984 round dater on cover (“Scott AFB”).  

Post card: Air Force Hospital [chrome]; “Officers on Base Dependents’ Quarters” [chrome]

Scott Field (dpo) 1942 machine on post card, “free” soldier’s mail on post card

Smithton  1908 4-bar on post card