Greetings from HANNIBAL

 MISSOURI

H - Illuminated Fountain, Nipper Park 

A - Mark Twain

N - Museum and boyhood home of Mark Twain

N - Statue of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

I - Admiral Coontz Armory

B - New Hannibal High School

A - Home of Huckleberry Finn

L - Entrance Mark Twain Cave

pub: CT 

posted: July 1, 1951

Dear Rose, Len and boys,

We're having a wonderful trip.

We have been in Harrisburg, Illinois, 

St. Louis, Missouri and now we are in 

Hannibal, Missouri.  It is very hot down here, 

but we are having fun.  Hope you are all OK

Much Love,

Joe and Wilma

Greetings from NEW HAVEN

 CONNECTICUT
Home of Yale University

pub: DEXTER PRESS

New Haven, The home of Yale University, noted for its educational facilities and imposing buildings.  New Haven is called the City of Elms because of the beauty and quantity of this stately species.

Greetings from WILMINGTON

DELAWARE

Wilmington is the largest and most important city in Delaware.

It was founded in 1638 by the Swedes.  The city was laid out in 1731 and now has a great number of fine buildings, wide streets and parks.

pub: CT

posted: May 14, 1952

Shopping.

Mom

Greetings from SOUTH CAROLINA

 pub: Asheville Post Card Co.

Hello from OCEAN GROVE

 N.J.

pub: CT

A message from COOKE CITY

 MONTANA

pub: C.T.

Cook City lies in a great Valley corridor leading into Yellowstone Park.  Situated on grassy timbered bench beside rippling Soda Butte Creek with great hills towering on either side and massive peaks rising above them, this little "City" has a setting equal to any painter's dream.

Greetings from JAMESTOWN

 NORTH DAKOTA

Street Scene

Trinity Hospital

Crippled Children's School

Chapel, Jamestown College

Jamestown Hospital

U.S. Post Office

pub: Hafstrom  Co.

Greetings from ZANESVILLE

 OHIO

Zanesville founded 1797, population 40,108, famous for Art Pottery and Tile,  noted for the only Y Bridge in America, located in Southeastern Ohio, beside he beautiful Muskingum, which is often called the Hudson of Middle West.

pub: CT

posted: Aug. 2, 1948

Dear Mother, Dad and Virginia.  I arrived back here ok tonight about 9:00.  Lots of cars on the road.  About 145 miles.  Thanks for everything over Sat. and Sunday.  Will write next week.

Love, Bruce

Greetings from WILL ROGERS FIELD

 OKLAHOMA

pub: CT

Greetings from HOT SPRINGS

NATIONAL PARK

ARKANSAS

pub: DEXTER PRESS

Greetings from PORTLAND

 OREGON

Portland, Oregon, metropolis of the Northwest, has a population of well over 400,000.  Situated on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers 110 miles from the coast.

P - Sixth Avenue

O - St. John's Bridge

R - Laurelhurst Park

T - Multnomah Falls

L - Union Station

A - Bonneville Dam

N - Lambert's Sunken Gardens

D - Broadway Bridge

pub: CT

Greetings from LAKE OKOBOJI

IOWA

L - Dixon Point

A - Des Moines Beach

K - The Inn

E - Sailing on Lake Okoboji

O - Speed Boat

K - The State Pier

O - Lake front Midway

B - The Queen

O - Iowa's Playground, Arnold's Park

J - Sunset on Lake Okoboji

I - Monument of Indian Massacre of 1857

pub: CT

RENO

 THE BIGGEST LITTLE CITY IN THE WORLD

pub: CT

Greetings from FORT WAYNE

INDIANA

"Where three rivers meet"

F - Lincoln Bank Tower

O - Sunken Gardens, Lakeside Park

R -        "         "        "     "

T -        "         "        "      "

W- Allen County Court House

A - Grotto in Memorial Park

Y - Gardens in Swinney Park

N - Anthony Wayne Monument

E - Section of Harrison Street Bridge

pub: KROPP CO.

Greetings from WILKES BARRE

 PA.

pub: DEXTER

Wilkes-Barre, center for Anthracite Coal Mining, is located in the beautiful historic Wyoming Valley.  It is the county seat of Luzerne county.

Greetings from Camp Lee

 VIRGINIA

pub: CT

Greetings from NEW YORK

 pub: CT

No other cosmopolitan center anywhere compares with New York, the home of Broadway, the famous "Great White Way".  The city  boasts also the world's greatest theatrical center and the world's tallest office buildings.

To the Old World, New York, with the famous statue of Liberty in its front yard harbor.is the gateway to the land of promise and progress.

It is the Wonder City of the World.

posted: Aug. 4, 1938

Dear Thelma, Hope it is cooler in Jeannette than it is here.  Having a grand time.  Hope you are all well as I am at present,  Best wishes to all from aunt and I 

Greetings from NORTH DAKOTA

 pub: CT

Greetings from WHITE MOUNTAINS

 NEW HAMPSHIRE

Nickname - Granite State

1940 Population - 491,524

Area in Sq. Miles - 9,341

Entered the Union, June 21, 1788

pub: TICHNOR

posted: Sept. 7, 1956

Friday,

We've come up the "rock bound" coast of Maine and even went thru Rockport, Maine.  In New Hampshire now and going back down thru the White Mts.  Beautiful and cool. Wonderful weather.  Susie and I are in suits Love, Your 3 kids

Greetings from FARIBAULT

 MINNESOTA

F - Buckham Library

A - High School

R -     "       "

I - Shattuck School

B -       "                 "

A = Viaduct

U -      "

L - Rice County, Court House

T - State School and Colony

 

pub: KROPP CO

Greetings from WACO

 TEXAS

pub: CT

Waco - the hub of Texas City of Industrial and cultural advantages.  Waco foremost collection of the works of the famous poet, Robert Browning, housed the Browning Building at Baylor University the oldest institution of higher learning in the State of Texas.  Cameron Park, fifth largest natural park in the United States, 550 acres of scenic Beauty.

posted: Nov. 14, 1951

Enjoying our visit with Billy.

Weather is warm and beautiful. 

Love,

Lillian and Bill 

Greetings from OREGON

 pub: CT

Greetings from SPOKANE

 WASHINGTON

 pub: CT 

S - Davenport Hotel, Restaurant & St. John's Cathedral

P - Crossing the Spokane river, ramp garage

O - North Central High School, Sunken Garden at Manito Park

K - Geyser fountain, Natatorium Park

A - Skyline Business District

N - Riverside Ave., Federal Building

E - Spokane County Court House

Greetings from ST. CLOUD

 MINNESOTA

The GRANITE CITY

pub: CT

Greetings from The LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY

                                    TEX.

pub: CT

 

Greetings from DES MOINES

IOWA

D - Birdland Drive

E - Center Street dam and four bridges

S -    "          "        "      "       "     "
 

M - East on Locust Street

O - Fish Pond, Waterworks Park

I -     "      "           "                "

N - Coliseum and part of Locust St. Bridge

E -     "             "     "      "     "        "      "

S -     "

pub: KROPP CO

Greetings from WILLIAMS

ARIZONA

 Gateway to the Grand Canyon.

Located on Highway 66 near its junction with the Grand Canyon Highway, Williams is a picturesque mountain  town in the heart of the greatest stand of yellow pine timber in the U.S. Summer nights are always delightfully cool at this altitude of 6,780ft.The town derives its name from Bill Williams Mountain, which is in turn named for a famous pioneer of the region.  Lumbering is the chief industry, several large mills being located there.

pub: CT

Greetings from Mobile

ALABAMA

Greetings from ST. LOUIS

MO.

pub: CT

Population - 816,000.  Greater St. Louis - population - 1,250,000.  Founded 1764 as a fur trading post at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.  City noted as an important raw fur market and for its products of shoes, beer, railway equipment., meat products and many others.

 

Greetings from DULUTH

 MINN.

pub: CT

Greetings from BIRMINGHAM

ALABAMA

Birmingham, the capital of Alabama, is the "Pittsburg of the South."  This  district leads the world in the production of cast iron pipe and is also one of the leading yellow pine and hardwood markets of the South.

pub: KROPP CO

(Mistake in the text: Birmingham is not the Capital of Alabama.

Montgomery is the Capital of Alabama.)