Roanoke Avenue, Roanoke Rapids, N.C.
Rating
Title
Roanoke Avenue , Roanoke Rapids , N.C .
Caption
Ess an Ess Photo Co. , Inc. , 11 E . 17th St. , New York , N.Y .
Transcription
Message on back of card : "Littleton , N.C . Dec . 8 . 18 . Dear L-- We have just had two nights of camping . Most froze to death night before last near Emporia Va . Were nice and comfortable here last night near a negro hut . They came in our tent last night and most talked us blind . They think we are so nice and wish we would stay all the time . Maud. " Addressed to "Mr . Frank Kezer , Rochester , Vermont. " Postmarked 8 December 1918 .
Publisher
Ess an Ess Photo Co., Inc., New York, N.Y.
Description
View of an unpaved street running through downtown Roanoke rapids . Cars and horse-drawn carriages are parked along the sides of the street .
Creation Date
1918
Date
ca. 1918
Subject (tgm)
Business districts
Subject Topical
Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic
Roanoke Rapids (N.C.) Halifax County (N.C.)
DCMI Type
Image
Form General
Postcards
Language
English
Physical Description of Original
89 mm x 140 mm
Medium of Original
Paper
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077) ; collection guide available online at http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0077/
Local Identifier
P077;1-13
Citation
"Roanoke Avenue, Roanoke Rapids, N.C." in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Digital Collection
North Carolina Postcards
Repository
North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Copyright
Public Domain
filename
P077-1-13.tif
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