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