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Bridge Between Port Arthur and Orange, Texas

Description: Photographic postcard of the cantilever bridge crossing the Neches River in Southeast Texas. It connects Port Arthur with Bridge City in Orange County. It is the highest bridge in Texas and is now known as the Rainbow Bridge. The card was mailed Dec 10, 1950 from Orange, Texas.
Date: 1950~
Partner: Heritage House Museum

East Texas Skyscraper

Description: Photographic postcard of the First National Bank, in Longview, Texas, as noted on the back of the postcard. The building was located at 213 E. Tyler, and it was "the tallest building in Longview, reaching a height of 145 feet."
Date: 1950~
Creator: Culpepper, Cody B.
Location: 32.494851 -94.738339
Partner: Longview Public Library

[Entrance ot DuPont Sabine River Works - Orange, Texas

Description: Photographic postcard picturing the entrance to the DuPont Sabine River Works, a power and chemical plant in Orange, Texas. Outside the entrance is a tall flag pole and a landscaped parking area full of automobiles.
Date: 1950~
Partner: Heritage House Museum

Points of Interest in and About Mineral Wells

Description: A photograph of a collage in a Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce advertisement includes a postcard that pictures points of interest in and about the city. Pictured are: An aerial view of Camp Wolters, the Recreation Center showing a theater, gymnasium, and PX, with an inset of the base hospital; Possum Kingdom Dam and part of the eponymous lake; a local beauty queen; an aerial view of downtown Mineral Wells, Texas; Lake Mineral Wells (with the island that was inundated when the dam was su… more
Date: 1950?
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Receipt for Life Insurance Application]

Description: Card from the Veterans Administration to Jack C. Vaughan, informing him that they have received his life insurance application.
Date: 1950~
Creator: United States. Veterans Administration.
Partner: Arlington Public Library

[Galveston Planning Group Response Card]

Description: Blank postal card from Metropolitan Business College addressed to Mrs. E. A. McClusky, Executive Secretary, Galveston Planning Group.
Date: March 1950
Creator: Galveston Planning Group
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to Frances Yerkes, April 6, 1950]

Description: Postcard from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing a cruise and the start of spring. The postcard features an image of the Anchor Room at the Annapolis Hotel in Washington, DC.
Date: April 6, 1950
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Fishburn Cleaners to Jeane Kempner, May 12, 1950]

Description: Letter from Fishburn Cleaners to Jeane Kempner informing her that her gloves and fur trim spread have been received for cleaning. They assure her that they will begin cleaning the spread but say that they do not handle gloves and, therefore, will return them with the "very next shipment".
Date: May 12, 1950
Creator: Fishburn Cleaners
Location: 29.293511 -94.792686
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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