The collection was donated to the State Archives by the Georgia Historical Society in 1983. The majority of postcards in the collection date between 1920 and 1950. A few date back to the early part of this century (ca. 1905-1920) and several are as recent as the 1960s.Half of the cards are views of various cities and towns and the other half consists of scenes and points of interest in the mountains of the western part of North Carolina.
Georgia Historical Society Postcard Collection
PhC.45.1
circa 1905 - 1960s
English
The collection was donated to the State Archives by the Georgia Historical Society in 1983. The majority of postcards in the collection date between 1920 and 1950. A few date back to the early part of this century (ca. 1905-1920) and several are as recent as the 1960s.
Half of the cards are views of various cities and towns and the other half consists of scenes and points of interest in the mountains of the western part of North Carolina.For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, North Carolina State Archives.
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Processed by Victor Nielsen and revised by Stephen E. Massengill, April, 1984; February, 1992
Encoded by Dietra Stanley
Encoding updated by Aaron Cusick, January 2012
The collection was donated to the State Archives by the Georgia Historical Society in 1983, when they deaccessioned much of their material pertaining to other states. The majority of postcards in the collection date between 1920 and 1950. A few date back to the early part of this century (ca. 1905-1920) and several are as recent as the 1960s.
[Identification of item], PhC.45.1, Georgia Historical Society Postcard Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.
The collection was donated to the State Archives by the Georgia Historical Society in 1983, when they deaccessioned much of their material pertaining to other states.
Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov.
About half of the cards are views of various cities and towns and the other half consists of scenes and points of interest in the mountains of the western part of North Carolina. The majority of postcards in the collection date between 1920 and 1950. A few date back to the early part of this century (ca. 1905-1920) and several are as recent as the 1960s.
Forty of the cards are the accordion folder type, which have about 12 views each. Like the single view cards, approximately one half (21) are of different cities and towns, and the remainder (19) are of mountain areas.
There are many duplicates in the collection. Some of these contain slight differences, and all variants were retained. Many of the duplicate cards are filed under different categories, for example, some of the cards under Lake Lure show Chimney Rock and vice versa. Some of the cards in the People category are duplicated in some of the geographic categories, as are cards featuring structures.