D-537 NEGRO "HEBEN" - A WATERMELON FEAST IN DIXIE - GREETINGS FROM ASHBURN (vintage postcard)

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Title

D-537 NEGRO "HEBEN" - A WATERMELON FEAST IN DIXIE - GREETINGS FROM ASHBURN (vintage postcard)

Description

[editor's note: This postcard uses the language and depictions of the period to refer to African Americans.]
E-5419

Script:
Hi, Gal!
We sho are having a good time and surly wish you could be with us.
We haven't had on a coat since we got here so you can just imagine how very nice it is here.
See ya around the 30th.
Love,
Kaye & Marvin
P.S. Don't forget my picture.

Addressed to:
Miss Irene Pelush
Maple Avenue
Haverstraw, N.Y.

Post Office Stamp:
Ashburn, GA
March 12, 1945
4:30pm

Creator

Asheville Post Card Co. (Asheville, N.C.)

Date

March 12, 1945

Collection

Citation

Asheville Post Card Co. (Asheville, N.C.), “D-537 NEGRO "HEBEN" - A WATERMELON FEAST IN DIXIE - GREETINGS FROM ASHBURN (vintage postcard),” Turner County Project Digital Archive Repository, accessed November 22, 2024, https://turnercountyproject.com/archive/items/show/379.

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