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Maggie Walker High School, Richmond, Va.

Card Text (transcribed from postcard): Maggie L. Walker School (1938) is a public, comprehensive school, offering vocational, general, and college preparatory courses to 1100 day pupils and 600 adult, night pupils. It is located on 8 acres adjacent to U.S. Route 1, formerly the site of Harishorne Memorial College. Through its name it serves as a memorial to Mrs. Maggie Lena Walker, a great orator and fraternalist and the first woman bank president in the United States.

 

Manufacturer: Richmond News Company

 

Date Postmarked: Not postmarked.

 

Note: Series # K4910. A 'Colourpicture' Publication, Cambridge, Mass.;

 

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/173

 

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

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Uploaded on March 16, 2015