Aerial View - Gastonia, N.C.
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Title
Aerial View - Gastonia , N.C .
Caption
Gastonia is located in almost the exact center of the Piedmont region . The air temperature by sunshine is pleasant and invigorating . In the City proper and its outskirts are 60 Textile Plants and the number of products manufactured here runs into the hundreds . Gastonia has modern school buildings , beautiful city parks , progressive civic clubs and many fine churches . It is located on U.S . Highway No . 29 and is only 2 hours driving distance to the beautiful Western North Carolina Mountains . Historic Kings Mountain Battlefield is only 20 miles West of the City . 83231 Pub . by the Asheville Post Card Co. , Asheville , N.C .
Publisher
Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, N.C.
Description
Aerial view of downtown Gastonia showing buildings , street blocks , and surrounding neighborhoods . The card is numbered G-9 .
Creation Date
1930 ; 1931 ; 1932 ; 1933 ; 1934 ; 1935 ; 1936 ; 1937 ; 1938 ; 1939 ; 1940 ; 1941 ; 1942 ; 1943 ; 1944 ; 1945
Date
ca. 1930-1945
Subject (tgm)
Aerial views Cityscapes
Subject Topical
Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic
Gastonia (N.C.) Gaston County (N.C.)
DCMI Type
Image
Form General
Postcards
Language
English
Physical Description of Original
87 mm x 138 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;5-353
Citation
"Aerial View - Gastonia, N.C." 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
P077-5-353.tif
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