Postcards

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Fredericksburg Area Museum

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Name/Title

Postcards

Entry/Object ID

2004.016.02

Scope and Content

Eleven postcards. Eight depict scenes from the Fredericksburg area. Three are Christmas- themed. None have been used.

Context

(A) "Free Bridge" Front - This postcard is a landscape-style color halftone print with a white border. There is a prominent crease in the bottom left corner. The postcard depicts a boy fishing on a river (left) with a bridge in the background (center background). Printed text on the bottom of the postcard, in the white border, reads, "FREE BRIDGE, RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER, FREDERICKSBURG, VA." (A) Back - (text, left, vertical) 54125--PUB. BY R. A. KISHPAUGH, FREDERICKSBURG, VA. (B) "Rising Sun Tavern" Front - This postcard is a landscape-style color halftone print with a white border. This postcard depicts a building with yellow siding and a stone foundation. The structure also has three gable dormers and a projecting portico. Printed text in the top center in the color portion of the postcard reads, "RISING SUN TAVERN, FREDERICKSBURG, VA. KEPT PRIOR TO 1775 BY GEN. GEO. WEEDON. USED AS A STOPPING PLACE BY GEO. WASHINGTON AND OTHER DIGNITARIES IN COLONIAL TIMES." (B) Back - (text, left, vertical) 33502--PUB. BY R. A. KISHPAUGH, FREDERICKSBURG, VA. (C) "Colonial Beach" Front - This postcard is a landscape-style black and white halftone print with a white border on only the top and bottom edges. The postcard depicts a central pier with people and umbrellas on it. There looks to be a ship at the end of the pier. Text on the bottom of the postcard, in the white border, says, "WHARF AND AMUSEMENTS, COLONIAL BEACH, V. Pub. by J. M. Sussman. (C) Back - Nothing to note on the back. (D) "Princess Anne Hotel" Front - This postcard is a landscape, hand-painted collotype with a cream border on the bottom edge. The postcard depicts the Princess Anne Hotel, facing south. There is a horse and buggy on the street in front of the hotel. On the bottom left in the colored section reads, "R.A. KISHPAUGH." On the bottom, in the cream border section, reads, "Princess Anne Hotel. Fredericksburg, VA." (D) Back - (text, center) Post Cards of Quality. -- The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. (E) "Free Bridge" Front (better condition) - This postcard is a landscape-style color halftone print with a white border. The postcard depicts a boy fishing on a river (left) with a bridge in the background (center background). Printed text on the bottom of the postcard, in the white border, reads, "FREE BRIDGE, RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER, FREDERICKSBURG, VA." (E) Back - (text, left, vertical) 54125--PUB. BY R. A. KISHPAUGH, FREDERICKSBURG, VA. (F) "Mary Washington Monument" Front - This postcard is a landscape-style color halftone print with a white border. The postcard depicts the Mary Washington Monument, facing west. In the top left of the postcard, in the colored section, reads, "MONUMENT TO MARY, THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON. FREDERICKSBURG, VA." (F) Back - (text, left, vertical) 33504--PUB. BY R. A. KISHPAUGH, FREDERICKSBURG, VA. (G) "Chatham" Front - This postcard is a landscape-style color halftone print with a white border. The postcard depicts a red building with a two-story exterior porch (Chatham Manor). There is a looped path in the foreground of the image. The perspective on Chatham faces southeast. Printed text in the white border on the bottom reads, "CHATHAM (KNOWN IN WAR TIMES AS LACY HOUSE), BUILT 1730, OPPOSITE FREDERICKSBURG, VA." (G) Back - (text, left, vertical) 54123--PUB. BY R. A. KISHPAUGH, FREDERICKSBURG, VA. - (text, left) At Chatham General Washington paid his addresses to the widow of Curtis; General Robert E. Lee whispered sweet words of love to a niece of Mrs. Fitzhugh, and the immortal Lincoln reviewed the army of the Republic before the battle of Fredericksburg, 1862. (H) "Brompton" Front - This is a landscape-style sepia lithograph of Brompton from Sunken Road, facing west. The postcard depicts a man sitting on the stone wall. Black printed text in the bottom left corner reads, "Mary's Heights, Fredericksburg, Va." (H) Back - There is nothing of note on the back of the postcard. (I) "Merry Christmas" Front - This is a portrait-style color lithograph holiday card with a cream border around all sides. On the top of the card is a country scene with a church on the right side and small cottages on the left side. Below that are two red poinsettias. Calligraphy text in the center reads, "Merry Christmas." Below the calligraphy text reads printed text, "The words mean much when I say them to you." In the very bottom right hand corner are the printed numbers, "3141." (I) Back - There is nothing of note on the back of the postcard. (J) "New Year Wishes" Front - This is a landscape-style color lithograph holiday card with a green border around all sides. There is a spring of mistletoe that extends from the top left corner of the card to the bottom right corner of the card. A person pulls a sled up a hill to a cottage on the right side of the card. In the bottom right corner of the card reads, "New Year Wishes" and "Bringing you kind thoughts, and every good wish for the New Year." (J) Back - There is nothing of note on the back of the postcard. (K) Front - This postcard is a landscape-style embossed color postcard. The postcard depicts a cream colored butterfly against a blue background, with two sticks and five leaves. (K) Back - There is nothing of note on the back of the postcard.