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| Title | Movies "Over the Waves" at Lumina, Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, N.C. |
| Caption | A novel feature of the Lumina entertainment is "Movies over the waves," music and dancing in the background, the ever changing seat and starry sky excelling in grandeur painted decorations, and with balmy ocean breezes instead of artificial ventilation. E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee. |
| Transcription | Message on back of card: "Well Beulah how are you. I am just fine only rather warm for it sure is hot here. Wish you could have been with us yesterday you would have had a time. We [went] to the Ocean. I was in bathing right by the post in the picture. Fondly, Violet." Postmarked 22 July 1926. |
| Publisher | E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
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| Description | View of a movie screen in the water at Wrightsville Beach, N.C. Many swimmers are in the ocean, and people are gathered in seats facing the screen. |
| Date | ca. 1926 |
| Subject (tgm) | Motion picture audiences
Motion picture theaters
Hotels
Oceans
Swimmers
Beaches
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| Subject - Topical | Postcards -- North Carolina
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| Subject - Geographic | Wrightsville Beach (N.C.)
New Hanover County (N.C.)
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| Original Form | Postcard
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| Language | English
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| Physical Description of Original | 89 mm x 141 mm |
| Medium of Original | Paper
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| Collection in Repository | Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available online at http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html |
| Local Identifier | P077; 7-561 |
| Citation | "Movies "Over the Waves" at Lumina, Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, 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
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| 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 | P077-7-561.tif |
