Large-Letter Postcards - part 6

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:

AAF Navigation School, San Marcos, Texas
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Amarillo Army Air Base, Texas

Army Air Base, Salt Lake City, Utah

Biggs Field, Texas
Curt Teich & Co. 1942

Camp Barkeley, Texas
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Camp Beale, California
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Camp Blanding, Florida
Curt Teich & Co. 1942

Camp Blanding, Florida
Curt Teich & Co. 1942

Camp Cooke, California
Curt Teich & Co. 1942

Camp Croft, South Carolina
Curt Teich & Co. 1941

Camp Crowder, Missouri
Curt Teich & Co.

Camp Ellis, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Camp Hood, Texas
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Camp Howze, Texas
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Camp Livingston, Louisiana
Curt Teich & Co.

Camp Maxey, Texas
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Camp Mc-Coy, Wisconsin
Curt Teich & Co. 1942

Camp Perry, Ohio, on Lake Erie
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Desert Training Center, California
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Curt Teich & Co.

Farracut Naval Training Station, Idaho
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Curt Teich & Co. 1941

Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Curt Teich & Co. 1950

Fort Devens, Massachusetts

Fort Jackson, South Carolina
Curt Teich & Co. 1941

Fort Jackson, South Carolina

Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Riley, Kansas
Curt Teich & Co. 1941

Fort Sheridan, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Curt Teich & Co. 1942

Fort Warren, Wyoming

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Geiger Field, Washington
Curt teich & Co. 1943

Great Lakes, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co.

Kearns, Utah

Logan Heights Reception Center, Fort Bliss, Texas
Curt Teich & Co. 1943

Mac Dill Field, Tampa, Florida
Curt Teich & Co.

Maxwell Field, Alabama

Moody Field, Georgia
Curt Teich & Co. 1942

National Advanced Training Centre, Tulia, Texas

U.S. Navy Pre Flight School Obstacle Course, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

U.S. Navy Pre Flight School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Scott Field, Belleville, Illinois
Curt Teich & Co. 1942

Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas

Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas

U.S. Navy Pre Flight School. Military, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

U.S. Navy, Jacksonville, Florida
Curt Teich & Co. 1942