Guide to the Twentieth-Century Postcard and Travel Booklet Collection MSS.2698

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Postcard and Travel Booklet Collection

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Publication:

W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama

Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu

March 2010

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Twentieth-Century Postcard and Travel Booklet Collection

Unit ID:: MSS.2698

Repository:: W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama

Quantity:: 0.2 Linear feet

Dates:: circa 1900 - circa 1960

Abstract:: Postcards and souvenir travel booklets from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, and Wales, dating from the early 1900s through the 1960s.

Processing Information:

Processed by

Lydia Wommack, 2010; revised by Martha Bace, 2011

Acquisition Information:

Provenance

Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.

Preferred Citation:

Preferred Citation note

Twentieth-Century Postcard and Travel Booklet Collection, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.

Scope and Contents note

This collection consists of postcards and travel booklets from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, and Wales, dating from the early 1900s through the 1960s.

Travel Booklets

Scope and Contents note

Souvenir booklets for various landmarks and places in the United States, Cuba and Mexico from the early- to mid-twentieth-century.

Components in Detail

California

Redwood Highway, California Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Views of Riverside, California Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Florida

Marineland, Florida Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Overseas Highway Miami, Homestead to Key West, Florida Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Silver Springs, Florida Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Winter Haven, Florida Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Georgia

Columbus and Fort Benning, Georgia Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Indiana

Michigan City, Indiana Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Louisiana

Greetings from Louisiana Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Massachusetts

Boston, Massachusetts Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

New Hampshire

White Mountains, New Hampshire Box SC0030 Folder 2698.1

Tennessee

Oak Ridge, Tennessee Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Rock City Gardens Atop Lookout Mountain Chattanooga, Tennessee Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Rock City Gardens Calendar Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Texas

Dallas, Texas Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Utah

Hoover (Boulder) Dam Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Ogden and Ogden Canyon, Utah Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Washington

Tacoma, Washington and Vicinity Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Washington, D.C.

Cherry Blossom Time in Washington, D.C. Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

The Pan American Building Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

West Virginia

Parkersburg, West Virginia Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Wyoming

Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole Country Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Cuba

Havana, Cuba Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Mexico

Ti Juana, Mexico Box SC0030 Folder 2698.2

Postcards

Scope and Contents note

Postcards for various landmarks and places in the United States and Wales, from the early- to mid-twentieth-century.

Components in Detail

Alabama

Anniston - Greetings from Anniston, Alabama Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Anniston - Jefferson Davis Hotel Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Anniston - Officers Quarters, Fort McClellan Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Athens - Campus Scene, Athens College Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Bessemer - DeBardeleben Park Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Birmingham - Negro Baptism Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Birmingham - The Tutwiler Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Birmingham - View of Birmingham from Red Mountain with Ramsey High School in Foreground Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Clayton - Barbour County Court House Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Enterprise - Coffee County Court House Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Enterprise - Coffee County High School and Vocational Agriculture Building Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Eufaula - Alabama Brenau College - Conservatory Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Eufaula - Broad Street By Night Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Eufaula - Confederate Monument and Bluff City Inn Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Eufaula - Country Club Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Eufaula - First Baptist Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Eufaula - Residence of Captain L.Y. Dean Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Eufaula - Salter Hospital Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Eufaula - View from Bluff at Eufaula, Alabama showing Chattahoochee River Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Florala - Lake Jackson Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Florala - Lake Jackson and Chatauqua Building Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Florala - Lake Jackson from Colonial Hotel Porch Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Gadsden - Boat Landing, Coosa River Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Gadsden - Court House, Park, and Fountain. Court Square. Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Mobile - A Typical Southern Sunset Over the Bay Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Mobile - Air Depot Groups at Formal Inspection- Brookley Field Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Mobile - Cawthon Hotel Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Mobile - On Mobile Bay Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Mobile - The Quadrangle, Spring Hill College Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Montgomery - The First White House of the Confederacy Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Mooresville - Ante-Bellum Methodist Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Mooresville - Historic Mooresville Old Stagecoach Hotel Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Roanoke - Mrs. Baird's Motor Court and Tourist Home Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - "Alabama" Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - Alabama Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - Alabama State Flag Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - Cloverleaf Intersection on New 4-Lane Highway between Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - Flags of Alabama Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - Lurleen Wallace Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - Paul "Bear" Bryant Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - Pine Torch Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - The Pioneer House at Hepsidam Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - The True Map of North America Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

General - Wallace Country Box SC0030 Folder 2698.3

Arkansas

Hot Springs Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Wedding in the Ozarks Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

California

Cawston Ostrich Farm Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Georgia

Valdosta - Ocean Pond Hunting and Fishing Club Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Illinois

Chicago - The Dearborn Hotel Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Chicago - State Street Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Chicago - Tall Buildings at Plymouth Place Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Kentucky

Camp Zachary Taylor Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Overnight Camp, Fort Knox Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Louisville - Looking East Over a Camp Bridge and Street at Camp Zachary Taylor Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Broadway Baptist Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Broadway Christian Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Broadway M.E. Church South Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Calvary Episcopal Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Chestnut St. Baptist Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Christ Church Cathedral [Episcopal] Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Church of the Messiah Unitarian Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Covenant Presbyterian Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - First Presbyterian Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Fourth Avenue Baptist Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Jefferson St. M.E. Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Reformed Zion Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Second Presbyterian Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church German Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - St. John's Episcopal Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - St. Louis Bertrand Roman Catholic Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - St. Martin's Roman Catholic Church [German] Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - St. Paul's Episcopal Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - St. Paul's German Evangelical Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - St. Peter's German Evangelical Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Stuart Robinson Memorial Presbyterian Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Temple Brith Sholum Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisville - Walnut St. [First] Baptist Church Box SC0030 Folder 2698.5

Louisiana

New Orleans - Carondelet Street Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Mississippi

Biloxi - "Beauvoir" Shrine of the Confederacy Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Biloxi - The Humming Bird Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Ohio

Cincinnati - Palm House, Eden Park Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Texas

San Jose Mission Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Virginia

Natural Bridge Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Natural Bridge Hotel Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Richmond - Skyline and Mayo Bridge over Historical James River Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Richmond - Gardens of Virginia House, Windsor Farms Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Wyoming

Yellowstone Park Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

General

Dixieland for Me Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Gen. Robert E. Lee, Confederate Chieftain Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Touring Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Fishguard Harbour, Wales

An Atlantic Liner Arriving Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

Arrival of the S.S. St. Patrick Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

General View Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4

The Irish Mail Arriving Box SC0030 Folder 2698.4