Terre Haute Postcards - Post Office
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United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This unused postcard, has the printed text...
1142
Pub. by Illustrated Post Card Co., 118 chambers St., New York
Authorized by Act of Congress of May 19 - 1898
("Post Carte - Postal Card - Carte Postale")
I have another copy of this postcard that was posted in Terre Haute in September 1904.
United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This postcard, posted in Logansport, Indiana on June 27th, 1907, has no other printed text. I have another copy of this postcard that was posted in Terre Haute June 17th, 1907.
United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on August 1st, 1908, has the following printed text...
Tom Jones, Cincinnati, O.
United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute, but with an unreadable date, has the following printed text...
13
I. & M. Ottenheimer, Balto., MD.
United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This unused postcard has the printed text...
13579
Levin Bros.
The Acmegraph co., Chicago trademark logo
United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on July 12th, 1909, has the following printed text...
12177
Published expressly for S. H. Knox & Co.
Made in U.S.A.
United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on April 23rd, 1911, has the following printed text...
12177
Published expressly for S. H. Knox & Co.
Made in U.S.A.
United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on 31st October 1911, has the following printed text...
12177
Published expressly for S. H. Knox & Co.
Made in U.S.A.
United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This postcard, stamped in Terre Haute on 23rd October 1912, has the following printed text...
12177
The Model
This building stood on the corner of Seventh and Cherry Streets. In 1883, the government purchased the land from William Riley McKeen and work on the building began in 1884. A former mayor of Terre Haute, Benjamin F. Havens, was appointed building superintendent by president Grover Cleveland. The building was completed in 1887 and was the first local building to house both a post office and federal offices. On the east side of the building was a bronze marker that read "U.S. Geologic Survey - elevation above sea level, 513 feet." Work to demolish the building was begun on May 27th, 1932, by R. C. Goldman Wrecking Company. A new post office was constructed on the site in 1935 and in 1936, the columns, triangular entablatures and eagle sculptures from this building were used in the construction of the Chauncey Rose Memorial in Fairbanks Park.
United States Post Office and Court House, Terre Haute, Indiana
This unused, linen postcard has the following printed text...
1B-H866
Wabash Valley News Agency. Inc., Terre Haute, Ind.
Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" Postcard (Reg & U.S. Pat. Off.)
I have other copies of this postcard that were stamped in Evansville, Indiana on June 2nd, 1943; Terre Haute on 17th November, 1949 and Terre Haute on February 17th, 1950.
United States Post Office, Terre Haute, Indiana
This used, linen postcard, stamped in Bradford on November 9th, 1940, has the following printed text...
14
14796
Pub. by Levin Bros., Terre Haute, Ind. (EIF)
I have another copy of this postcard that was postd in Terre Haute on September 2nd, 1942.
Designed by Miller and Yeager in the Art deco style the building opened in 1935 on the site of the old Post Office at Seventh and Cherry Streets. The post office operation was moved in 1997 to Margaret Drive. "The Signing of Magna Carta" by muralist Frederick Webb Ross on the second floor courtroom wall is a notable interior feature.
This page created 20th March 2008, last modified 10th October 2009
