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SOUTHERN COTTON (vintage postcard)
Cline photo I-K-30
[editor's note: This postcard uses the language of the period to refer to African Americans.]
Script:
Dear Mom & Pop,
We ran into good weather this side of Atlanta. Lots of mules and darkies. Stopped here for lunch.
Yours…
[editor's note: This postcard uses the language of the period to refer to African Americans.]
Script:
Dear Mom & Pop,
We ran into good weather this side of Atlanta. Lots of mules and darkies. Stopped here for lunch.
Yours…
Shingler Park, Ashburn, GA (vintage postcard)
Script:
I was not at all surprised to get your card. Had been expecting one sometime. F. told me you would send me a card.
So warm here we have no fires. Just lovely Spring weather.
F.L.B.
Address to:
Miss Tillie Simpkins
Princess Ann,…
I was not at all surprised to get your card. Had been expecting one sometime. F. told me you would send me a card.
So warm here we have no fires. Just lovely Spring weather.
F.L.B.
Address to:
Miss Tillie Simpkins
Princess Ann,…
Shingler Park, Ashburn, GA (vintage postcard)
Script:
Dearest Summers how are you feeling this [missing] in? I have just had a [illegible], it was fine.
Say Burman is going to have a turkey dinner Sunday and she told me to write you and Mr. Summers to come down in the car and bring Johnston…
Dearest Summers how are you feeling this [missing] in? I have just had a [illegible], it was fine.
Say Burman is going to have a turkey dinner Sunday and she told me to write you and Mr. Summers to come down in the car and bring Johnston…
Smith Restaurant - Main Street - Ashburn, Ga. (vintage postcard)
2-T-491
Script:
Rested here last night feel fine this morning eating ham & eggs for breakfast at this restaurant on the front of the card.
See you later
Vernell
Address to:
Mrs. William Kirkman
626 Hall St
Owensboro, KY
Post Office…
Script:
Rested here last night feel fine this morning eating ham & eggs for breakfast at this restaurant on the front of the card.
See you later
Vernell
Address to:
Mrs. William Kirkman
626 Hall St
Owensboro, KY
Post Office…
Smith's Restaurant - "You've never eaten FRIED CHICKEN until you try ours!" (matchbook cover)
"We serve the best coffee on the Highway"
Smith's Restaurant - "You've never eaten FRIED CHICKEN until you try ours!" (matchbook cover)
"We serve the best coffee on the Highway"
Letter from R.L Jones Poultry to Mr. A.C. Hawkins (1908)
Script:
Mr. A.C. Hawkins (Lancaster, Mass)
Dear Sir,
Please write me your best price on one Barred Plymouth cockerel about one year old. I want a nice bird something that will do to show. Also write me best price on two 2 year old hens nice…
Mr. A.C. Hawkins (Lancaster, Mass)
Dear Sir,
Please write me your best price on one Barred Plymouth cockerel about one year old. I want a nice bird something that will do to show. Also write me best price on two 2 year old hens nice…
World's Largest Coloring sheet
If you travel around enough you're sure to encounter some really nutty sites, but none as tasty looking at the giant peanut that sits atop the monument to this noble nut, Georgia's official state crop. It was built in 1975 and dedicated to Nora L.…
OUTDOOR TABERNACLE ASHBURN, GEORGIA (vintage postcard)
Sample of a type of postcard that could be purchased.
OUTDOOR TABERNACLE ASHBURN, GEORGIA (vintage postcard)
Sample of a type of postcard that could be purchased.
Photo of the Ashburn Community Pool
Located at what is now known as Tom Whitsett Park, the pool has since closed and been filled in.
The white building in the back was Britt's Grocery.
The white building in the back was Britt's Grocery.
MURRAY-RAINES HARDWARE CO. envelope
Envelope for Murray-Raines Hardware Co. addressed to J.D. Weed & Co. in Savannah, GA.
GEORGIA NORTHERN train
GEORGIA NORTHERN
No. 14
Type: FTA
Builder/Date: Electro Motive, 1944
Location/Date: Ashburn, GA Feb 9, 1969
No. 14
Type: FTA
Builder/Date: Electro Motive, 1944
Location/Date: Ashburn, GA Feb 9, 1969
Letter from Greenville Yellow Pine Co. (1912)
Jan. 29 1912.
Messrs. Farrar Lumber Co.
Bainbridge, Ga.
Gentlemen:
Replying to your letter of the 27th, we have no siding, Flooring or Shingles to offer at the immediate moment.
Very truly yours,
George T. Betts
Sec. & Treas.
Messrs. Farrar Lumber Co.
Bainbridge, Ga.
Gentlemen:
Replying to your letter of the 27th, we have no siding, Flooring or Shingles to offer at the immediate moment.
Very truly yours,
George T. Betts
Sec. & Treas.
House on the front (vintage postcard)
Script:
Having a fine time. Come to Hatley, GA
Shall expect you Tuesday sure. Saw [illegible] children at the Depot in C- Rose also missed connections. So am with Rose she was the cause.
Belle
Addressed to:
Mrs. Maude Burk
Warwick,…
Having a fine time. Come to Hatley, GA
Shall expect you Tuesday sure. Saw [illegible] children at the Depot in C- Rose also missed connections. So am with Rose she was the cause.
Belle
Addressed to:
Mrs. Maude Burk
Warwick,…