Name/Title
PostcardEntry/Object ID
1998.001.01Scope and Content
Four postcards of area scenes, color. All are unused. 3.5 x 5.5Context
(A) "Victor's Hollywood Cottages" Front
- This postcard is a landscape style color halftone print with a cream border, divided into three separate images. The top image depicts a set of red cottages off of a road. The bottom left picture shows the interior of a room. The bottom right picture shows the same row of red cottages and an archway. In the center of all three images in a black text box that states "VICTOR'S HOLLYWOOD COTTAGES". In the left center reads, "UNITED MOTORCOURTS EASTERN DIV INCORPORATED". On the top of the postcard reads, "VICTOR'S HOLLYWOOD HOTEL COTTAGES AND RESTAURANT -- U.S. ROUTE 1 -- FALMOUTH, VA." On the bottom of the postcard reads, "48 MILES SOUTH OF WASHINGTON, 4 MILES NORTH OF FREDERICKSBURG" and "1B-H1515".
(A) "Victor's Hollywood Cottages" Back
- (text, top left) VICTOR'S Hollywood Hotel Cottages and Restaurant FREDERICKSBURG, VA. Modern, Steam-Heated, Sound-Proof Brick Cottages, with private bath in every room. Beauty-rest Mattresses--Peasant Type Swiss Furniture. Large Dining Room serving excellent food-- Southern Fried Chicken and Virginia Ham Dinners. Where Service is our Watchword and our Guest is King VICTOR MENACHE, Prop. - - TEL. FREDERICKSBURG 9141-J
- (text, center, vertical) GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO "C.T. ART-COLORTONE" POST CARD (REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.)
(B) "Monument to Mary Washington" Front
- This postcard is a landscape style color halftone print, with a cream border, of the Mary Washington Monument, facing west. Text on the bottom reads, "MONUMENT TO MARY, THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON. FREDERICKSBURG, VA."
(B) "Monument to Mary Washington" Back
- (text, left) 33504--PUBBY R.A. KISHPAUGH, FREDERICKSBURG, VA.
- (text, top left) Monument to the Mother of General George Washington. Erected in 1894 by the women of America.
- (text, center) COMMERCIAL CHROME
(C) "Meditation Rock" Front
- This postcard is a landscape style color halftone print with a cream border of Meditation Rock, facing west. Text on the bottom of the postcard reads, "MEDITATION ROCK, MARY WASHINGTON'S FAVORITE SPOT, FREDERICKSBURG, VA."
(C) "Meditation Rock" Back
- (text, left) 56914--PUB. BY R.A. KISHPAUGH, FREDERICKSBURG, VA.
- (text, top left) MEDITATION ROCK--Mary Washington's favorite retreat for reading the Bible and quiet religious thought. Situated under the shade of a beautiful grove of oak trees just back of her monument.
(D) "Horse Chestnut Tree" Front
- This postcard is a portrait-style color halftone print with a cream border of a large Horse Chestnut Tree in front of a red-roofed building. Text on the top of the postcard reads, "The Last of the Thirteen Horse Chestnut Trees." Text on the side reads, "2A389." Text on the bottom reads, "Planted by George Washington at Fredericksburg, Va."
(D) "Horse Chestnut Tree" landscape
- (text, left) R.A. KISHPAUGH, FREDERICKSBURG, VA.
-(text, top left) On one of his visits to Fredericksburg, George Washington planted thirteen Horse Chestnut Trees to represent the Thirteen Colonies during the Revolutionary Days. This is the only one remaining.
- (text, center, vertical) GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO "C.T. ART-COLORTONE" POST CARD (REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.)
