• The Old Red Covered Bridge PRINCETON, ILLINOIS Vintage Real Photo Postcard
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Real Photo Postcard (RPPC)

The Old Red Covered Bridge PRINCETON, ILLINOIS Vintage Real Photo Postcard

The Old Red Covered Bridge PRINCETON, ILLINOIS Vintage Real Photo Postcard

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Real photo postcard featuring "The Old Red Covered Bridge" that runs over Big Bureau Creek in Princeton, Illinois. A sign above the covered bridge reads, "Five Dollars Fine for Driving More than Twelve Horses, Mules or Cattle at One Time or for Leading Any Beast Faster than a Walk on or Across This Bridge."

Black and white photograph with handwritten white ink caption.

  • Era: Real Photo Postcard (RPPC), 1950
  • Location: Princeton, Illinois, USA
  • Publisher: L.L. Cook, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Photographer: Unknown
  • Subject: Covered bridge
  • Condition: Vert good, small area on corner worn
  • Postmark: Posted June 5, 1952 - Princeton, Illinois to Glendale, Ohio
  • Message: Handwritten
  • Postage Stamp: 1c George Washington stamp (Green #804 – 1938), two cancelled stamps, affixed
  • Size: 5 ½” x 3 ½”

Packaged in protective postcard sleeve.

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