The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's steel truss bridge crosses the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, viewed from a wooded bluff on the Iowa shore. The railroad first spanned the river here in 1868, and the crossing in view is a later steel replacement of that pioneer bridge. Burlington was a busy river town and a C.B.&Q. division point, where the line's main stem out of Chicago met Mississippi River traffic.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pencil
Hello [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible]
we arrived
home all
right
write
soon
[illegible]
Thin white border; visible stipple/halftone screen texture; wear and small paper loss along the top edge; card number 'A8' printed in red at upper right.
Postmark: BURLINGTON IOWA AUG 10 2 PM 1915. Divided-back era (1907+); colored halftone card; faint pencil message written diagonally on the correspondence side, largely illegible; light soiling and edge wear, small stain near stamp.
Cite this card
C.B. & Q. bridge over Mississippi River, Burlington, IA, 1915, postcard, c. 1915. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/c-b-q-bridge-over-mississippi-river-burlington-ia-1915. Accessed November 2, 2026.
