A three-story brick school with stone trim, tall multi-pane windows, and stepped parapets stands at a street corner, young shade trees along the lawn. The caption identifies it as Marquette High School in Alton, Illinois, a Mississippi River industrial city north of St. Louis. Marquette was a Catholic secondary school, and the building's scale and formal front fit the city's early twentieth-century institutional growth. Alton's river trade and manufacturing linked it closely to St. Louis.
Linen-textured stock with a white border; printer's job number 123392-N printed at lower right. The card carries the "GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO 'C.T. AMERICAN ART' POST CARD (REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.)" printer imprint and was distributed by W. H. Mather, Book Store, Alton, Ill.
No postmark. Handwritten date June 19, 1945 on the message side. Divided-back linen Curteich card with white border; light edge wear.
Cite this card
Marquette High School, Alton, IL, 1945, postcard, c. 1945. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/marquette-high-school-alton-il-1945. Accessed November 2, 2026.
