Colorized photograph of Charlotte, N.C., Post Office and U.S. Assay Office (formerly U.S. Mint). Handwritten note: #1008 Boulevard. 2/4/07. Dear Ralph, How are you? been an age since I saw you. Did you get over your honeymoon all OK. Read your announcement yesterday. Congratulations, Ralph. Write me soon, your friend, Eng.
Blank post card. Manufacturer's text: Mint Museum--Built in 1837 and utilized for many years as a United States mint, this strikingly beautiful building was demolished and rebuilt in suburban Eastover, where it now houses the Mint Museum of Art. Dixie News Company, Charlotte, N.C. Handwritten 4 in top-left.
Blank post card. Manufacturer's text: Mint Museum--Built in 1837 and utilized for many years as a United States mint, this strikingly beautiful building was demolished and rebuilt in suburban Eastover, where it now houses the Mint Museum of Art. Dixie News Company, Charlotte, N.C. Handwritten 4 in top-left.
Blank post card. Manufacturer's text: The Museum was formery of a United States Mint, but was reconstructed as a cultural center of popular interest. Pub. by Dixie News Company, Charlotte, N.C. Handwritten 4 in top-left.
Drawings of Historical Scenes of Charlotte N.C.: Monument to the memory of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, plate commemorating the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, Mint Museum of Art, build 1837, moved to present site, 1936, site of Confederate States Navy Yard, Rock House erected by Hezekiah Alexander 1774, he as a signer of hte Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775.
Blank post card. Manufacturer's text: Charlotte, N.C., has historical interest, having figured prominently in both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. The Mechlenburg Declaration of Independence was signed in 1775, fully one year before the Declaration was signed in Philadelphia, Pa. Dixie News Company, Charlotte, N.C. Handwritten 4 in top-left.
Stamped by WM. H. Morton, 55 Concord St., Portland, Maine. Handwritten note: This is no longer used as a mint much to our sorrow. It is an assay office now. 1358 Published by Richard Behrendt, San Francisco, Cal for Mrs. K.A. Rattice Arlington Block, Carson City, Nevada -- Printed in Germany. Handwritten 16 in top-left.