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A merry Christmas
A Merry Christmas Card sent to Miss Reba Frensler/Fransler. The front shows a flower covered bell with pinecones and pinebranches around it with ribbons and white flowers in the rest of the space. Not all of the message on the back is clear, but someone is clearly asking Miss Reba to come home. The card is sent from Winchester and/or Charlottesville to Winchester.
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Burlington Locomotives: 50 years of Progress - c. 1933
Black and white postcard with two locomotives pictured, plus schematics and comparison of the two in the lower right corner. At the top, text reads: 50 Years of Progress in Burlington Locomotives. On the reverse, the postcard has written at the left edge: This card furnished for mailing in the Postal Car on the Burlington's World's Fair Exhibition Train. The Burlington locomotive No. 35, which ran on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railr...
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Campbell Ave from Henry Street - c. 1910
Tinted postcard of Campbell Avenue street scene. A red striped awning sits in the foreground on a red brick building at the left hand side. In the background at the back right is the tall brick Terry building, its circular tower dominating the skiline. A red trolley runs in the center of the road on tracks. Several small Model T cars line the street. Women in long dresses and hats walk the streets. For the most part, the people are not colo...
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Campbell Avenue postcard - 1909
Color postcard of Campbell Avenue, looking east in Roanoke. Streetcar tracks and lines are visible between the tall buidlings lining the street. The Terry building is visible at the far end of the street, along with a bakery, a grocery, and several other buildings with colorful awnings. Several people walk or stand at the sidewalk to the left of the image. The postcard was sent from Salem, Virginia, to St. Paul Minnesota. A green on cent ...
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Car Treatment Ad
This card is adressed to Mr. Treavy and is advertising a long-life treatment for cars. The letter contains 9 services that fall under the "Spring Special" for 3.95$.
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Castle at the Children's Zoo, Mill Mountain - c.1950
Colorized postcard of a white castle in the center of image, with a turret and a tower at the far right of the image. Trees and a smaller building in the far left back surround the castle, with the castle the center focus. Typed text in the lower right corner: R - 80 The Castle at Children's Zoo on Mill Mountain, Roanoke, Va. The post card was published by Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville NC. On reverse is a small paragraph about the zoo...
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Elmwood Park in Winter - c. 1920s
Colored postcard of Elmwood House sitting atop a hill. Trees surrounding it are bare, and snow covers the ground. The gates to the park are closed. In the lower right, 'Elmwood Park in Winter, Roanoke VA' is written in block letters framed by a black square. The postcard is printed by the Shelor-Woltz Pty., Co. out of Salem VA.
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Hearty Greetings Postcard
Postcard found between two photographs. Postcard has a lithograph of two roses, a pink and a red, draped across an unseen surface. In the upper right, "Hearty Greetings' has been printed in a script. No notations or anything written on the reverse.
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Hotel Roanoke - c. 1930s
Colored postcard of the tudor style Hotel Roanoke with green roof. Hotel sits at the center of the postcard surrounded by tall evergreen style trees at both the left and right. A short limestone or rock wall separates the sidewalk from the street in front. Pink flowers line the wall. Postcard is printed by S. H. Kress & Co.
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Hundimiento del Acorazado - Admiral Graf Spee - c.1940s, post-1939
Photographic postcard of the Hundimiento del Acorazado - Admiral Graf Spee. Front of postcard is a photograph of the sinking of the Admiral Graf Spee, a Deutschland-class "Panzerschiff" (armored ship). Reverse is undated, but has a Republica Argentina 10 cent stamp - no postmark is visible. Postcard is addressed to Hon. C.A. Woodrum Capitol Building Washington DC USE, with the following text written on correspondence side: We passed by four d...
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Jefferson Street Looking South - c. 1925
Color postcard of Jefferson Street, looking South. Several Model T automobiles line both sides of the roadway, and a bus or trolley sits at the right foreground. Streetcars can be seen off in the distance, as well as the streetcar lines in the road. Jefferson Hotel and Cafe are the only two signs visible on the left hand side of the road, Rex tailors on the right, and the Patrick Henry Hotel in the distance. On the reverse, it's empty. A...
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Lake Spring, Salem, Virginia
Color postcard of Lake Spring, Salem, Virginia. Postmark faded over a green George Washington one cent stamp. Postcard was sent to a C. Harold Lauck in Winchester Virginia. Card was published by Shelor-Woltz Pty Co. in Salem, Virginia
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Lewis Gale Hospital
Postcard of Lewis Gale Hospital when it was on the northwest corner of 3rd Street and Luck Avenue. The main image is of the hospital in 1959. In the upper left hand corner is an inset of Lewis Gale Hospital when it first started in 1909.
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Lewis Gale Hospital - c. 1910s
Colored postcard of the front and side perspective of Lewis Gale Hospital when it was on Jefferson St. There is a Model T style automobile parked in frnt of the sidewalk leading directly to the hospital, as well as a full bright green tree at the right of the postcard.
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Notice of Classification, Post WW1
This is a letter from the War Department local board marking someone with a 1-a classification for military service. The card is entirely filled out by the local board, and is adressed to a house in Chester, Pennsylvania.
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Old Mill Near Roanoke - 1911
Color postcard of a mill and bridge over a snowcovered and rocky river. A waterfall is visible in the background. Postcard is addressed to Bedford
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Postcard from Jack Saunders - February 14, 1919
Station postcard from J.W. Saunders to 'my dear sister' to notify her of his new station. It reads: 2/14 1919 My dear sister A.P.O. 758 I am now stationed at Liffol-le-Grand, France with Co. D. 510 Engineers and am in good health; but~~~ J.W. Saunders The reverese of the postcard is addressed to Mrs. J. H. [illegible] with a postmark in the upper right hand corner and a signature over a light purple postmark in the lower left co...
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Postcard from Jack Saunders - October 12, 1918
Postcard from J. W. Saunders 'Somewhere in France' to 1st Lieutenant F. K. Saunders at Camp Lee, Virginia. Postcard is written an American Y.M.C.A logo postcard with 'On Active Service with the American Expeditionary Force' across the front of the card. On the reverse is a purple postmark stating 'passed as censored' and an additional with the date and 'Army post office 10 13 1918.' The reverse, written in blue ink, reads: Somewhere in F...
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Postcard of the US Senate, Washington DC - June 17, 1909
Colorized postcard of the interior of the U.S. Senate in Washington DC. The image is over several small desks and large wooden arm chairs arranged in a semi circular orientation; the rows following the first are situated on small risers. At the center of the semi-circle is a large three large desks, growing grander in style at each riser. Surrounding the edges of the building are white columened walls and windows, the upper sections filled wit...
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Postcard of the US Senate, Washington DC - June 18, 1909
Colorized postcard of Dupont Circle and the Dupont statue. The postcard is of a verdant park, a small path runing diagonally acorss the paper. A group of women with baby carriages sit at the center of the image, just off the path. Trees frame the image, and a small statue on a pedestal can be seen in the center of the postcard. On the verso of the postcard, a red one cent George Washington stamp is placed in the upper right corner. It is a...
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