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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.

Each entry provides a link to the image of the front of the cover. There is also the option to have a link to the image of the back of the cover if there is anything of significance there. Finally, there is the primary date for the cover and the classification types for all postmarks based on the Locy System.

Thumbnail Link To Cachet Close-Up Image	Thumbnail Link To Full Cover Front Image	Thumbnail Link To Postmark or Back Image	Primary Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

			1909-08-31 Locy Type 1 (C)
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Postcard use
"JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BUILDING, ALASKA-YUKON
PACIFIC EXPOSITION, SEATTLE, WASH. 1909.
OFFICIAL POST CARD"

			1909-11-13 Locy Type 1 (C) 1909-12-16 USPO Machine Vallejo, Cal. Return to USS PHILADELPHIA C-4
			Category

Postcard use
"Pagsanjan Falls, Philippines."

			1910-04-08 Locy Type 1 (C)
			Category

Postcard use
"Coal Shute, Cristobal, Canal Zone."

			1910-08-21 Locy Type 1 (C)
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Postcard use
"HOLD THE / FORT FOR / I AM COMING"

			1910-10-17 Locy Type 1 (C)
			Category

Postcard use
"Uneedn't / Wait 'Till June! / Do It Now!!"

			1910-11-23 Locy Type 1 (C)
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Postcard use
"Palo Alto, California, University Avenue"

			1910-12-17 Locy Type 1 (C)
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Postcard use
"Christmas / Greetings / U.S.S. SOUTH DAKOTA"

			1911-01-27 Locy Type 1 (C)
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Postcard use

			1911-04-12 Locy Type 1 (C)
			Category

Postcard use
"Winter at Miramar, near Santa Barbara, Cal."
Notice the swastika design of the printing company logo...This was a "Good Luck" symbol at the time, before Nazi Germany employed it as a national symbol

			1911-04-24 Locy Type 1 (C)
			Category

Postcard use
"The Salton Sea, California. / On the Southern Pacific R. R. between / Los Angeles and Yuma."

		No Image	1912-05-27 Manila P.I. Duplex
			Category

Note:

N/A		No Image	1912-07-04 Shanghai China
			Independence Day

Courtesy of Michael Porritt.

			1915-02-04 Locy Type 3 (AC, S. DAKOTA) "BREMERTON / WASH."
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Postcard use

			1918-09-10 Locy Type 3rz
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Censored wartime (WWI) use

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