From Abbeville to Zebulon
Early Post Card Views of Georgia
Title Details
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 610 b&w photos
Trim size: 8.000in x 10.700in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 03/01/1999
ISBN: 9-780-8203-2113-4
List Price: $26.95
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
From Abbeville to Zebulon
Early Post Card Views of Georgia
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From “Depot Street, looking North” in Abbeville to a “Street Scene” in Zebulon, this delightful gathering of more than six hundred vintage post-card images presents the panorama of daily life in early-twentieth-century Georgia.
Family outings, veterans’ reunions, harvests, baptisms, and market days are just a few of the occasions depicted here, with many of the cards representing the only surviving visual record of schools, homes, churches, businesses, and public buildings long lost to “progress” or disasters.
Bursting with civic pride, boasting of a newfangled product, or simply conveying “Greetings from. . . ,” these post cards are an unexpected and invaluable resource for historians, collectors, and nostalgia buffs.
An evocative portrait of a time when postcards were such a hot novelty that farmers mailed them to themselves when they went to town on Saturdays.
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Many fascinating glimpses into the way we lived.
—Macon Magazine
Highly recommended . . . A book to be treasured by all Georgians.
—Georgia Journal