Building the Turnpike, Wilkes Co., N.C.
Rating
Title
Building the Turnpike , Wilkes Co. , N.C .
Caption
No . B-1785 Pub . by Spainhour Sydnor Dry Goods Co. , North Wilkesboro , N.C . Printed in Germany .
Transcription
Message on back of card : "I am coming home Monday night . Howard Thornton. " Addressed to: "Mrs . Dorcian Blair , Walker Ave . Greensboro , N.C. " Postmarked 8 August 1908 .
Publisher
Spainhour Sydnor Dry Goods Co., North Wilkesboro, N.C.
Description
View of man with a rifle supervising several prisoners with wheelbarrows moving earth for the construction of a turnpike .
Creation Date
1908
Date
ca. 1908
Subject (tgm)
Prisoners Road construction Wheelbarrows Rifles
Subject Topical
Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic
Wilkes 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;1-9
Citation
"Building the Turnpike, Wilkes Co., 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
P077-1-9.tif
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