Postcard of the Day, Part 9


Is this Illinois?  With the wooded hills in the background, it’s reminiscent of a highway view in West Virginia  This is an early 20th Century postcard of Savanna, Illinois, a Mississippi River town in Carroll County.

Savanna, ca. 1910. A. O. Elliott (#U.S. 502), Savanna, Ill.

Taken from Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, October 2012).  Previous postcards herehere, here, herehere, here, here, and here.


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