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Card Text (transcribed from postcard)

RICHMOND is the most important tobacco manufacturing centre in the United States. Among the many large factories located here, the imposing structure on the Petersburg Pike, home of the famous MODEL tobacco, is considered by many to be the most beautiful manufacturing building in America, and one of the real attractions of the City of Richmond.

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_343.jpg

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