Guide to the Cuban postcards MSS.3695
Cuban postcards
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
November 2012
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Cuban postcards
- Unit ID:
MSS.3695
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 linear foot 20 postcards
- Dates:
circa 1920
- Abstract:
Postcards depicting scenes in Cuba in the early twentieth century
Biographical/Historical note
These post cards were collected by Mary Frances Riggs, born in Clinton, Iowa, in 1872. She was a school teacher in Iowa and Nebraska for approximately 17 years before moving to Idaho in 1908. In 1910, she married Henry Chiles Riggs; she returned to teaching to support her children after his death in 1925. She died in 1969.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Linda Riggs Allen, 2012
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Martha Bace, 2012
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Cuban postcards, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Usage Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Use note
None
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
Scope and Contents note
The collection includes 20 postcards depicting scenes in Cuba in the early twentieth century. The postcards show images of rural life as well as the city of Havana and include images of shark fishing, a boneyard, and a man milking a burro.
Source(s)
Allen, Linda Riggs (local)
Community and Place (localbroad)
Travel and Tourism (localbroad)
Postcards Box SC0086 Folder 3695.01