Excelsior Pocahontas Coal Co. Mines No.1 & 2.
Pocahontas Smokeless Coal
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Double postcard.
Mine in Excelsior, McDowell County, West Virginia on the Norfolk & Western Railway.
Photo credit on right side: Haines Photo Co., Conneaut, Ohio.
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Millboro Tunnel, Millboro, Virginia.
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B & W. Postcard.
"Photo-Tone"
Eagle Quality. The Eagle Post Card View Co., N.Y.
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The James H. Hagy Wagon Co., Abingdon, Va. Established 1855. Incorporated 1904.
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Postmarked July 1910
Message on back:
"Dear Boy,
You must be good & mind what is told you. How are you getting along any way, are you getting home sick. Write us a card
You Papa W.[?]"
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HagyWagonCo
Entrance to Woodbine Cemetery, Harrisonburg, VA.
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Postmarked September 22, 1922
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Saint Paul Nation Bank Building. Saint Paul, Va.
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Postmarked August 26 4PM 1914
Message on reverse:
"Mother dear, it was so muddy today we could not come home but if Friday is a better one we will walk [word obscured] if not please send for me Sat. evening - Love Olive
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SaintPaul
View of Valley From Highway No. 11, Draper's Mountain, Pulaski, VA.
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Caption on reverse:
DRAPER'S MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA
To the South and West lies Draper's Valley, named for John Draper, who settled here in 1765. He moved hence from Draper's Meadows (Blacksburg) where his wife was captured by the Indians in the Massacre of 1755. Six years later Draper ransomed her. He served as an officeer in the Point Pleasant Indian Expedition in 1774.
Postmarked Apr 18 1945
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Mill Mountain, Roanoke, Va.
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Postcard.
Postmarked July 28, 1907
Printed in Germany.
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MillMountain
Tazewell, Virginia
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Postcard. Made in Germany.
Postmark illegible.
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First Baptist Church, East Radford, Va.
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Hotel Patrick Henry, Roanoke, VA
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Caption on reverse:
Hotel Patrick Henry
Roanoke, Virginia
400 Rooms with Bath, Ceiling Fan, Circulating Ice Water.
Garage direct entrance to Lobby.
Fay M. Thomas, Manager.
Postcard is a Lumitone Photo Print,
This company published highly stylized view-cards in tinted halftone lithography.
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"Little Falls" on Stony Creek, Giles County, Virginia
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Postmarked June 30, 1908, Newport, Va.
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Interior St. Andrew's Cathedral, ROANOKE, Va.
Interior view of nave facing altar.
Postmarked: June, 1908.
Message on reverse:
"Hello Ernest,
I shall be glad to go up to see you all Sunday night. I shall arrive on the evening train. Do let me meet the little man you have in [store?].
Frances J."
St. Andrews Catholic Church, Roanoke, Va.
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Postcard of drawing.
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StAndrews
Portion of South Quadrangle with Dormitories, Hollins College, VA
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Caption on reverse: "Hollins College, situated seven miles from the city of Roanoke. Oldest college for women in Virginia, founded by Charles Lewis Cocke. Began with Valley Union Seminary of 1842. An accredited liberal arts college with an endowment and board of trustees. A Southern collection with a nation-wide patronage.
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