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Post Office, Raleigh N.C.

This week on Flashback Friday we offer another beautifully tinted postcard by the famed postcard publisher, Hugh C. Leighton. The card depicts Raleigh’s post office building on Fayetteville St. as it was originally built, before two major additions in the 20th century altered its appearance.

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Faircloth Hall, Baptist University for Women

This week for Flashback Friday we feature this beautifully tinted postcard of Faircloth Hall. The dormitory was built on the old Meredith College campus on Blount St. in 1909. Faircloth Hall was brand new when this postcard was mailed in 1910.

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Yarborough House, Raleigh, N.C.

I love the message on this postcard — “Bunk here tonight. A fairly good hotel.” Actually the famed Yarborough House was Raleigh’s premier lodging and social gathering spot from its establishment in the 1850s until its destruction by fire in 1928.

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