MG-213. POSTCARD COLLECTION, [ca. 1880-1974].

Postcards, advertising cards, greeting cards, and political and patriotic pictorial materials arranged by counties and showing urban and rural scenes including historic, public, commercial, industrial, and private buildings, churches; bridges and streams, railroads, and highways. This collection includes a card showing Lincoln University in Oxford, Chester County, and a card announcing a firemen’s convention in Beaver Falls, Beaver County, which presents an unfavorable depiction of an African American.

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