Amusement, Wrightsville Beach, N.C. "Sack Race"
Rating
Title
Amusement , Wrightsville Beach , N.C . "Sack Race "
Caption
13607 Published by The Orton , Wilmington , N.C . Printed in Germany .
Transcription
Message on back of card : "Nothing much here will try another place in a day or so . Am having a nice time but very [quiet] not so pleasant as last summer when you was here. BPa. " Addressed to: "Miss Fanny L . Pearce , 5105 W Lee St , Greensboro N.C. " Postmarked 24 May 1910 .
Publisher
Orton, Wilmington, N.C.
Description
View of a potato-sack race on the beach . Crowds gather on both sides and on the pier above to view the racers .
Creation Date
1910
Date
ca. 1910
Subject (tgm)
Sack racing Beaches Crowds
Subject Topical
Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic
Wrightsville Beach (N.C.) New Hanover County (N.C.)
DCMI Type
Image
Form General
Postcards
Language
English
Physical Description of Original
88 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;7-611
Citation
"Amusement, Wrightsville Beach, N.C. "Sack Race"" 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
P077-7-611.tif
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