Aug 10, 2018
Downtown Des Plaines, IL, 1940s.
Vintage postcard from DesPlainesMemory.org
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Downtown Des Plaines, IL, 1940s.
Vintage postcard from DesPlainesMemory.org
It’s national #StickerDay! Here’s a World War II (1943) envelope seal promoting the war effort on the home front.
Find more stickers - if that’s what you’re into - at DesPlainesMemory.org!
It’s #NationalTechnologyDay! We’re partial to anything library related or retro-techy here at Des Plaines Memory, so we couldn’t resist posting these awesome pics of the library’s state-of-the-art in 1987 electronic newspaper and periodicals reader.
“You go your way, I’ll go mine...”
Vintage postcard from our collection at DesPlainesMemory.org.
Birdseye view of Des Plaines, IL, 1900s.
Vintage postcard from DesPlainesMemory.org.
Masonic Temple, Des Plaines, IL.
Vintage postcard from our collections, DesPlainesMemory.org.
Having a staycation this year? Take a trip to the Brookfield Zoo, Chicagoland.
Vintage postcard from our collections, DesPlainesMemory.org.
Visit us at DesPlainesMemory.org. We’ve got everything from street scenes circa 1915 to a World War II soldier’s love letters to a 1960s court case about a mustache to modern day punk rock and more!