Postcard

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Fredericksburg Area Museum

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Name/Title

Postcard

Entry/Object ID

1995.003.01

Scope and Content

Postcard of Kenmore. Color. 3.50 x 5.50

Context

Front - This postcard is a landscape-style halftone color print of Kenmore, facing east. The building is painted grey and has a hyphen with an arcade to the north side of the structure. On the bottom of the postcard reads, "KENMORE, BUILT 1740 BY FIELDING LEWIS, WHERE HE TOOK BETTIE WASHINGTON (GEORGE'S SISTER), AS A BRIDE, FREDERICKSBURG, VA." Back - (text, left vertical) 48545--PUB. BY R.A. KISHPAUGH, FREDERICKSBURG, VA. -(text, left, handwritten) Many thanks for my pretty card. I hope yall are all well. I am right well. Would love to see you all. With love and best wishes to all, Respectfully Jane(?) Sillie.(?) E. - (text, right, handwritten) Miss Ada Stone, Rosesille, P.O. Stafford Co. Virginia - (text, right, stamp) FEB 22 AM 1921 VA.