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Seventh Avenue Boulevard showing Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, circa 1935

Subjects
Schools & UniversitiesStreet ScenesTown & City Views
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1915 (White Border)
Front of Seventh Avenue Boulevard showing Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, circa 1935, c. 1915 linen postcard
Front
Back of Seventh Avenue Boulevard showing Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, circa 1935, c. 1915 linen postcard
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About this postcard

A wide paved boulevard stretches away from the viewer, lined with trees and lawns, with a large domed classical building of Augustana College rising on the right above a grassy terrace and steps. A few automobiles are visible on the street. Augustana College, founded in 1860 by Swedish Lutheran immigrants, moved to its present Rock Island campus in the 1870s and became a center of Swedish-American education in the Midwest; the domed structure shown is the college's main academic building of the early twentieth century.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

Dear Mom We are having a time. Yesterday we went to a state park. We shopped at Davenport Wednesday. We are going on the ferry to Davenport and are going swimming today. Diana had her shoes fixed today. We are going to see our COUSINS in Davenport Saturday. We will be home Sunday or Monday. Tell everybody hello. Di & Bill

PublisherHickey Brothers
SEVENTH AVENUE BLVD. SHOWING AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, ROCK ISLAND, ILL. --- Seventh Avenue Blvd. is the main thoroughfare between Rock Island and Moline. HICKEY BROTHERS, DAVENPORT, IOWA C. T. AMERICAN ART COLORED POST CARD THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY
PostmarkedJuly 2, 1937, 17:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Mrs. Roy Johnson

23 Chestnut St, Galesburg, Illinois

Postcard record

Postmarked
PublisherHickey Brothers
Series1A1824
ConditionGood
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides
NotesWhite border; visible halftone dot screen; card number 1A1824 printed at lower right; light corner and edge wear, small crease at upper left. Postmark: ROCK ISLAND JUL 2 5 PM 1937 ILL. Divided-back "C. T. American Art Colored" card published by Hickey Brothers, Davenport, Iowa; pencil message; light edge/corner wear and slight toning.

Cite this card

Seventh Avenue Boulevard showing Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, circa 1935, postcard, c. 1915. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/seventh-avenue-boulevard-showing-augustana-college-rock-isla. Accessed October 24, 2026.