We previously published this postcard on Flashback Friday in 2011, but this week the interest is the message written on the back more than the card itself. So, we welcome the New Year with a sweet greeting from long ago.

Many thanks for your kind Christmas Greetings etc. May God bless you & your good family in the year 1931.

The message on the card, written in a beautiful cursive hand, was mailed on January 2, 1931 by G. Wilder Fort, Poultry Department, State Hospital (i.e. Dorothea Dix).

The addressee, Henry G. Early, was my grandfather. He was head of the Poultry Department at Baptist Orphanage in Thomasville, NC  from 1925 until his retirement in 1960. My mother was born on December 21, 1930. In addition to raising their own three children, my grandparents were also foster parents to  about a dozen boys resident in one of the ‘cottages’ on the orphanage campus. I often stayed a week or so with them during the summers when I was a boy. I have many fond, and lasting, memories of the times I spent at Baptist Orphanage in those days.

So, all the best to you, dear readers — many thanks for your kind support of Goodnight Raleigh, and blessings to you and yours in the year 2014!

You can read the original post here.

Our Flashback Friday postcard this week was published by the long-time Raleigh office outfitter, Alfred Williams Co.

“Flashback Friday” is a weekly feature of Goodnight, Raleigh! in which we showcase vintage postcards depicting our historic capital city. We hope you enjoy this week end treat!

 

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