Photographic postcard of armed militimen in Springfield, Illinois

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A black-and-white albumen photographic postcard of armed young militiamen posing in front of a house in Springfield, Illinois. A small group of state militiamen, dressed in uniform and armed with rifles, stand in an eased line along the curb of a dust road. They pose for their photography in front of a dilapidated house and their pitched tents on the grass. Large, bushy trees frame the house and the upper left and right sides of the image. The postcard has a divided back with respectively marked spaces, [CORRESPONDENCE HERE] and [NAME AND ADDRESS HERE], for inscriptions. It is printed on AZO paper, with an AZO stamp space in the upper right corner. There is a handwritten inscription at the top right corner [8] above the green, postmarked, Benjamin Franklin one cent stamp. To the left of the stamp is a round, black, “SPRINGFIELD / SEP / 1908” postal mark.

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