Postcards from the Past
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Description
Viewers learn how to solve mysteries of local history through the use of nearby architecture. (Features locations in Asheville, Durham, New Bern, and Wilmington.) As a supplement to this documentary, see the UNC collection of NC Postcards. The collection contains more than 1,000 postcards, including at least one from each of North Carolina’s one hundred counties. Many of the postcards are from the golden age of postcard publishing in the early twentieth century and show a fascinating array of street scenes, churches, colleges and universities, businesses, courthouses, and landscapes.
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