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    Card Text (transcribed from postcard)

    These buildings of Virginia granite form part of a fifty-five acre campus. The Institution was chartered in 1896. It offers Liberal Arts and Theological courses to 500 negro college students each year. It is a school rated class A by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

    Note

    African American College; 1500 block of North Lombardy;

    Topical Subject

    Historic buildings -- Virginia -- Richmond

    Geographic Subject

    Richmond (Va.) -- Postcards; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 20th century; Richmond (Va.) -- Pictorial works

    City/Location

    Richmond (Va.)

    Genre

    postcards

    Local Genre

    postcard

    Type

    Still Image

    Digital Format

    image/jpg

    Language

    eng

    Rights

    This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.

    Collection

    Rarely Seen Richmond: Early twentieth century Richmond as seen through vintage postcards

    Source

    William Shuman Collection of Richmond, Virginia Postcards, Accession Number 2004-09-12, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.

    File Name

    postcard_174.jpg

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