These souvenir postcards were hugely popular in in the 1940s and 1950s in America. Companies like Curt Teich and Co. made cards representing every state and almost all the towns and cities (more than 10,000) in the country.
I have collected a digital archive of around 2000 Large Letter postcards, but won't be showing all those here. Instead I have chosen interesting examples from across the range of designs and locations represented.
This final selection is quite interesting in as much they were produced mainly during WW2 as greeting cards to be sent from military training camps and bases from all over the U.S.A., not something we would have done in the UK, literally advertising all the potential bombing targets.
For other examples of Large Letter postcards see parts 1 - 5 also. This is part 6 of a 6 – part post on Large-Letter postcards:
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| AAF Navigation School, San Marcos, Texas. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Amarillo Army Air Base, Texas |
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| Army Air Base, Salt Lake City, Utah |
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| Biggs Field, Texas. Curt Teich & Co. 1942 |
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| Camp Barkeley, Texas. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Camp Beale, California. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Camp Blanding, Florida. Curt Teich & Co. 1942 |
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| Camp Blanding, Florida. Curt Teich & Co. 1942 |
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| Camp Cooke, California. Curt Teich & Co. 1942 |
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| Camp Croft, South Carolina. Curt Teich & Co. 1941 |
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| Camp Crowder, Missouri. Curt Teich & Co. |
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| Camp Ellis, Illinois. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Camp Hood, Texas. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Camp Howze, Texas. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Curt Teich & Co. |
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| Camp Maxey, Texas. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Camp Mc-Coy, Wisconsin. Curt Teich & Co. 1942 |
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| Camp Perry, Ohio, on Lake Erie. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Desert Training Center, California. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Drew Field, Tampa, Florida. Curt Teich & Co. |
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| Farracut Naval Training Station, Idaho. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Curt Teich & Co. 1941 |
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| Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Curt Teich & Co. 1950 |
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| Fort Devens, Massachusetts |
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| Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Curt Teich & Co. 1941 |
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| Fort Jackson, South Carolina |
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| Fort Knox, Kentucky |
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| Fort Riley, Kansas. Curt Teich & Co. 1941 |
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| Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Curt Teich & Co. |
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| Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Curt Teich & Co. 1942 |
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| Fort Wayne, Indiana |
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| Fort Wayne, Indiana |
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| Geiger Field, Washington. Curt teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Great Lakes, Illinois. Curt Teich & Co. |
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| Kearns, Utah |
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| Logan Heights Reception Center, Fort Bliss, Texas. Curt Teich & Co. 1943 |
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| Mac Dill Field, Tampa, Florida. Curt Teich & Co. |
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| Maxwell Field, Alabama |
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| Moody Field, Georgia. Curt Teich & Co. 1942 |
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| National Advanced Training Centre, Tulia, Texas |
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| U.S. Navy Pre Flight School Obstacle Course, Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
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| U.S. Navy Pre Flight School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
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| Scott Field, Belleville, Illinois. Curt Teich & Co. 1942 |
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| Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas |
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| Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas |
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| U.S. Navy Pre Flight School. Military, Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
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| U.S. Navy, Jacksonville, Florida. Curt Teich & Co. 1942 |
