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A collection of postcards featuring various prominant Augusta buldings and landmarks. The postcards were originally a part of the State Library of Florida collection, donated to the Augusta Museum of History, and then donated to to Reese Library by the Augusta Museum of History in August of 2019. There is a total of 29 postcards in the collection.

Collection of Augusta postcards

Collelction holds postcards document historic Augusta buldings from ca. 1890-ca. 1970

Materials consist mostly of postcards depicting various views of Augusta Georgia.  The largest two series of postcards cover the 1908 flood and the 1916 fire.  Also included are four photographs, several newspaper clippings and two anniversary programs from St. John Methodist Church; the sesquicentennial of the church and the one hundredth anniversary of the Sunday School

This collection is comprised of two folders of miscellaneous postcards of the Augusta area. The majority of the postcards are undated, but seem to date from the 19th-20th centuries. The postcards depict buidlings in the Augusta, Georgia area, and churches, and were produced by a variety of publishers. The first folder of postcards were added by Kara Flynn in December 2018. More postcards were added in October, 2019 (Acc# 2019.50).

This collection is comprised of three items of miscellaneous ephemera: a postcard addressed to Miss Bettie Nichols (1886), a court summons for the commonwealth of Kentucky (1868), and a novelty $500 dollar bill produced as a tourism item by the Charleston, S.C. Chamber of Commerce.

This collection is comprised of a single postcard depicting the Savannah River and the North Augusta bridge. The note on the postcard is addressed to a George Davis, of Charleston, South Carolina.

national and international postcards

The collection consists of personal correspondence, photographs, and financial records documenting the prominent Walker family of Augusta, Georgia.