Vintage Kentucky Postcard LOUISVILLE Municipal Bridge 1949 Linen For Sale

A Curt Teich Linen postcard depicting the Municipal Bridge (George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge) over the Ohio River. Sent by Sam LeJeune Jr. from Louisville on Oct 27 1949 to Miriam Ripper at 630 Washington Pekin Illinois. The sender mentions the weather is grand and thanks the recipient for a card view. Features a 'Give Enough Through Your Community Chest' slogan cancel on the 1c Franklin stamps (x2). Card code 4A-H867 indicates the plate was made in 1934 though sent in 1949. Publisher Readmore News Co. is noted on back left edge and Caufield & Shook copyright on front top right corner. Trains and a boat named Cincinnati are visible near the bridge base in the foreground scenery along the riverbank area with railroad cars and industrial settings including Jeffersonville Indiana in background across the water line view perspective of the scene depicted on this vintage lithograph print souvenir from the era showing local infrastructure and river transportation history of the region and city life during that period in time for travelers and collectors alike who enjoy historical bridge photography and ephemera related to the Ohio River valley geography and urban development and interstate commerce and transportation networks of the mid twentieth century United States midwest border states region history and heritage on display for the viewer's enjoyment and appreciation of this artistic representation of the landmark structure connecting two important river cities in the region near the falls of the Ohio location in the area near the Kentucky and Indiana state line border crossing point over the river at this historic location known for its architectural significance and engineering importance in the early part of the century before modern replacements were built nearby in later decades for increased traffic demands and larger vehicles on the road systems and highway networks in the local area surrounding the city center and waterfront districts for all to see and enjoy as part of the visual landscape of the city of Louisville Kentucky and its neighbor Jeffersonville Indiana across the bridge from each other's shores today as well as in the past captured here on this postcard for posterity and memory sake for all who visit or live there in the region along the beautiful Ohio River banks and shores and hillsides in the distance behind the bridge structure itself in this colorful view of the site as it appeared many years ago during the peak of the linen postcard era and the golden age of travel and tourism in the heart of the country for everyone to see and experience for themselves through the lens of this classic piece of vintage americana and travel history preserved in this physical format from the past for the future to enjoy and learn from about the way things once were in the city of Louisville and the state of Kentucky and the region as a whole during this time period in history and culture and life for many people living there or passing through on their journey through the states and the world in general during the mid 20th century in America for all time and eternity. Postmarked from Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.

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