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  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection

Postcard back, Riverside County Court House, 1908

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Postcard back, Riverside County Court House, 1908
PC-002-191B
Postcard back of Riverside County Court House, Riverside, California, 1908
06/12/1908
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Neuner Printing and Lithograph Company, Los Angeles, California
This postcard's divided back bears two overlapping postmarks, a pencilled name and alphabetic letter at the top, the logos of the publisher and contributor, publishing information, a promotional paragraph for Riverside, and a message and address written in cursive using black ink that is fading. A postage stamp may have been removed.
Divided backs; Postmarks; Logos; Benham Indian Trading Company; Neuner Printing and Lithograph Company; Laura T. Kent
  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
Benham Indian Trading Company, Los Angeles, California
Postcard
3.5 inches X 5.5 inches
Yes
PC-002-191A

[handwritten in cursive with black ink]
Dear Laura,

Am at Claremont a few days on my way home. Shall write to you after I get home again. Saw Emma yesterday. Thanks for your card, Lovingly,
Bessie



Miss Laura T. Kent

Maxton Arizona.



[top post mark] Claremont 6 PM Jun [illegible under other postmark]
[second post mark] Jun 12 [?] AM 1908 Ariz.

[handwritten in pencil above postmarks] L Kenny
[in top left margin, in pencil] D
[logo of Benham Indian Trading Company under arms of bent cross] BIT Co.
[logo of Neuner Printing and Lithograph Company on looking like a herald angel whose trumpet banner reads] Neuner Co. Calitype Process

[printed at top of message space] The Riverside County Court House is, architecturally, one of the most beautiful and best adapted to its purpose of any public building in California. There are only two which have bost more. It stands in the center of two and one-half acres of velvet lawn and tropical plants.

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