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16 Jan 2017
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Two cards with a difference

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These two Asheville Post Card Company issues are both titled ” J.C. 85 GARDEN SCENE ON CAMPUS OF MILLIGAN COLLEGE, MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TENNESSEE”.  However, the top one has an inventory number of 90271 and the bottom one, E-7426 (I have yet to find any list of dates for APPC inventory numbers).

See how the same picture, more than likely originally a black-and-white shot, has been airbrushed differently in the two issues.  The top card is not postmarked, but the word “Post Card” on the back is in a typeface that was used in the 60s.  The bottom card is postmarked with a 1947 date.  Here are the backs of the same cards:

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I see this a lot.  The original picture was probably taken after WWII.  When someone ordered up a run of this card later on, APPC just recycled the picture and adjusted the colors to create a different-looking card.

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07 Sep 2015

Rogersville Postcards

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Rogersville Synodical College, a finishing school for women, originally established by The Odd Fellows, but, as building costs escalated, it was quickly handed over to the Nashville Synod of the Presbyterian Church.  They kept it going until 1913, when it went under for lack of funding.  There had been two bank panics early in the century and then came the recession of 1911 or so, which didn’t let up until World War I.  “Hard times, come again no more”.
On the back of the card: Hello Kid: How are you standing the times?  I’m just fine.  Tell Mae to have me a good supper Friday night.  Ans soon your sis Cora.  Addressed to Miss Blanche Gladson, R.#4 Rogersville Tenn  (Postmark is Rogersville Feb 15 2pm 1909)

Six years later:

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Title of the card is “Street Scene, Rogersville, Tenn.”  Pub. by R.F. Rowan
This one was mailed from Indianapolis in 1915 (the day/month part of the mark is obscured) from another sister (maybe) of Miss Blanche Gladson.  All the message on the front and the back involves and upcoming trip back home to Rogersville on the train and to be sure to have a good supper ready.  The signatures on the card are a little confusing.  On the back, the signature after “your loving sis” is H.E. B.  On the front, the message is signed “Connie”.
I’m not sure who Connie is.   Blanche shows up in the 1910 census as living at home.  She was born in 1898 or 1899 in Hawkins County.  Her father was Mat, her mother Ida.  She had three sisters and one brother.  No sister was named Connie, but it could be that this “sis” was the wife of Hugh, the son. Then in 1917, Blanche wed Hayes King and the marriage certificate shows her as being 17 years old.  Hmmm.
Many thanks to ancestry.com.

 

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