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Agricultural and Mechanical College, Raleigh, N.C.

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This week’s Flashback Friday postcard features an early image of NC State University’s Holladay Hall. Except for the veil of ivy and the overgrown shrubbery, the building looks virtually the same today as it did when this card was mailed in 1907.

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State House, Raleigh, N.C. (Showing Confederate Monument.)

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This week for Flashback Friday we feature a tinted white border postcard depicting the capital city’s iconic Confederate Monument. The grandiose 75-foot tall granite obelisk was the second monument to be erected on Capitol Square, and has anchored the head of Hillsboro St. since 1895.

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Greetings from Raleigh, N.C.

Greetings from Raleigh! For our first Flashback Friday post of the new year, we feature another of the popular ‘Big Letter’ postcards of the 1940s.

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