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  • img_00037.pdf

    Front: Greetings From Rocket City - Huntsville, Alabama, Home of the Redstone Arsenal
    Back: Huntsville is the home of Redstone Arsenal which houses the U. S. Army Missile Command with responsibility for all Army Missiles and Rockets, the U. S. Army Ordnance Guided Missile School where soldiers receive missile training and the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA which provides the giant rocket vehicles for the nation's space program.
  • img_00031.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, Ala. Spring Park., Government Bldg., Court House, Elks' Home & Opera House, Franklin St.
  • img_00025.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00023.pdf

    Front: Colonial Homes, Huntsville, Ala.
    Back: Few parts of the South equal Huntsville in wealth of handsome ante-bellum Homes. Posterity may view with profitable concern
    No. 1, the residence first Secretary of the States of the Confederacy, who issued order to fire on Fort Sumter in 1861, first shot ot the Civil War. This edifice was built in 1815.
    No. 2, the home of the first Governor of Alabama, built in 1837.
    No. 3, the palatial home ot a wealthy planter of the Old South, built in 1835.
  • img_00019.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville
  • img_00015.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, ALA. Huntsville, U. S. Court House & Post Office, Hotel Monte Sano and Grounds.
    Back: Private Mailing Card. Authorized by Act of Congress May 19, 1898.
  • img_00013.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, ALA. Huntsville Spring in Winter. Court House.
    Back: Private Mailing Card. Authorized by Act of Congress May 19, 1898.
  • loc_gold_000396_000396.pdf

    This letter includes responses to Rison's wire and the return wire. It also includes information on cotton buyers and local weather conditions. The sender did not sign the letter, but it is most likely Oscar Goldsmith.
  • loc_gold_000322_000323.pdf

    This letter is probably to Oscar Goldsmith and his wife, or whoever maintained correspondence with Ed while Oscar was sick. Ed expresses his apologies for Oscar's condition and states that it was "ideal Spring days" in Chattanooga. After closing the letter, Ed writes on the back: "Please pay the enclosed insurance premium also as I am afraid to pay it and run short of cash."
  • loc_gold_000306_000307.pdf

    Jeannette thanks her uncle, Oscar Goldsmith, for letting them stay with them and getting to know the family. She details the difficult travels home and her plans to visit her father's family in Marietta.

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