Bird's Eve View
Title
Bird's Eve View
Description
Birds Eye View Woodstock, ILL.
Taken from the Public School on South Street that burned in 1921.
Upper left: Courthouse with smokestack behind it, probably Moncur's greenhouse but possibly Woodstock Brewery. To the right in the background Oliver Typewriter factory.
Left: side view of Stafford's Furniture and the roof of the Donnelly house next to a side view of the McHenry County Courthouse.
120 Cass St. wooden building that was a boarding house and was demolished in 1928 for Woolworth's.
118 Cass: brick building torn down in 1921 for Pratt Meat Market
Foreground: rear view of 125 Van Buren (Chauncy Hill's blacksmith shop), demolished for Stage Left Cafe
129 Van Buren demolished in the 1940's for the A & P grocery store. Both buildings have a rectangular "business" façade made of wood. As a result a black rectangle seems to be in the Square park but is actually the shadow from the park trees.
On back, PCK Series; 8682 L. T. Hoy Druggist, Woodstock Ill. Printed in Germany. Postmarked Aug 2 1909. Jim Keefe postcard is postmarked 1908.
Luman T. Hoy had a drug store at 100 Cass from 1881-1928.
Paul C. Koeber Co. (PCK) 1900-1923
85 Franklin Street. New York, NY and Kirchheim, Germany
Published national view-cards and illustrations in chromolithography and in black & white. Much of their color work has a dark heavy feel to it because of the many thick layers of ink they used. In their later years they published postcards using tinted halftones. metropostcard.com
Compare this back view with the front view of photo ID 72: Opera House 1889-93 aerial view
Taken from the Public School on South Street that burned in 1921.
Upper left: Courthouse with smokestack behind it, probably Moncur's greenhouse but possibly Woodstock Brewery. To the right in the background Oliver Typewriter factory.
Left: side view of Stafford's Furniture and the roof of the Donnelly house next to a side view of the McHenry County Courthouse.
120 Cass St. wooden building that was a boarding house and was demolished in 1928 for Woolworth's.
118 Cass: brick building torn down in 1921 for Pratt Meat Market
Foreground: rear view of 125 Van Buren (Chauncy Hill's blacksmith shop), demolished for Stage Left Cafe
129 Van Buren demolished in the 1940's for the A & P grocery store. Both buildings have a rectangular "business" façade made of wood. As a result a black rectangle seems to be in the Square park but is actually the shadow from the park trees.
On back, PCK Series; 8682 L. T. Hoy Druggist, Woodstock Ill. Printed in Germany. Postmarked Aug 2 1909. Jim Keefe postcard is postmarked 1908.
Luman T. Hoy had a drug store at 100 Cass from 1881-1928.
Paul C. Koeber Co. (PCK) 1900-1923
85 Franklin Street. New York, NY and Kirchheim, Germany
Published national view-cards and illustrations in chromolithography and in black & white. Much of their color work has a dark heavy feel to it because of the many thick layers of ink they used. In their later years they published postcards using tinted halftones. metropostcard.com
Compare this back view with the front view of photo ID 72: Opera House 1889-93 aerial view
Creator
Date
1900/1908
Collection
Citation
Paul C. Koeber-PCK Postcards, “Bird's Eve View,” Woodstock Public Library Archives, accessed March 10, 2026, https://woodstockpubliclibraryarchives.omeka.net/items/show/80.
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