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BBBBA Century ofProgress %u25a0 Postcards %u25a0J.O. Stoll Company Series%u25a0 Partial Set %u25a0Chicago%u2019s J. O. Stoll Company was founded by John Otto Stoll, who was born in 1900 and died in 1947. Stoll%u2019s company was both a magazine distributor and a publisher of postcards. For A Century of Progress, the company produced two series of postcards. One series had the title at the top of the front, in the border of the card, with a two-digit identifying number in the top right corner. This series had a logo on the back%u2014TB Cambridge Mass%u2014which indicated that the printer was Massachusetts%u2019 Tichnor Brothers Inc. The other Stoll series of Century of Progress postcards were printed by Curt Teich & Co., and have the title in the front bottom border, generally centered, but not always. One card, which is divided into two views, has two titles, one each in the top and bottom border. The backs have an alpha-numeric identifier in the format WF-## which is a similar format used on other Curt Teich postcards. It is unknown how many different cards were produced in either series.%u2756