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BBBBA Century ofProgress %u25a0 Postcards %u25a0Sturgis Lithograph Co. Series%u25a0 Partial Set %u25a0The Sturgis Lithograph Co. was located in Sturgis, Michigan, and was sold to the Wayne Paper Box and Printing Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana sometime in 1934. Wayne Paper Box and Printing was known for publishing about 10,000 different black-and-white postcards with a silver border, which they produced into to the early 1950s. Sturgis published an unknown number of postcards for A Century of Progress, likely less than two dozen, and they are not common. Each card has a white border with a title centered in the lower border and an identifying number to the right of the title. Besides the words, %u201cMfg. by the Sturgis Lithograph Co., Sturgis Mich.%u201d the backs also have the words, %u201cPHOTO-TONE.%u201d%u2756