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View in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.

Card Text (transcribed from postcard): This beautiful Necropolis was first opened to the 'tenancy of the dead' about the year 1857. Here nature has done her part in hills, valleys, rivulets, and ponds, and art has embellished, without rendering [formal] the beauties of nature.

 

Manufacturer: Southern Bargain House, Richmond, Va.

 

Date Postmarked: 1912

 

Note: Beautiful and Historical Richmond, Va. Series No. 59;

 

Rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.

 

Reference URL: scholarscompass.vcu.edu/postcard/440

 

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

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