17th Annual Fair, Greensboro, N.C.
Rating
Title
17th Annual Fair , Greensboro , N.C .
Caption
Seventeenth Annual Fair , Greensboro , N.C. , Oct . 10-11-12-14 , 1916 . The Big Agricultural and Educational Fair , open day and night . Friday Educational Day , and free day to teachers and pupils of Guilford County Schools . Garland Daniel , Secretary . Pub . by J.I . Williams , Worcester , Mass. , U.S.A .
Transcription
Message on back of card : "Dear Mother and all , I will write you a letter when I get a little paper . Feeling fine I am Dead Broke . So send some stamps So I can write to you . Mike. " Addressed to " Mrs . Mary Murtagh , 59 Maydoke St. , Norwich , New York. " Postmarked 30 June 1918 .
Publisher
J. I. Williams, Worcester, Mass.
Description
View of three scenes from the Greensboro fair : "South Elm St. , Greensboro , N.C. " "A Hot Finish " showing a horse race , and "The Midway on Opening Day " showing a crowd gathered outside near a group of tents . There is an American flag sticker on the face of the card , obscuring part of the caption . "Garland Daniel , Secy. " is printed on the face of the card .
Creation Date
1918
Date
ca. 1918
Subject (tgm)
Fairs Tents Racetracks (Horse racing)
Subject Topical
Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic
Greensboro (N.C.) Guilford County (N.C.)
DCMI Type
Image
Form General
Postcards
Language
English
Physical Description of Original
91 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;5-581
Citation
"17th Annual Fair, Greensboro, N.C." in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill; "Title" 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
P077-5-581.tif
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