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Collection Overview
Title: Worland Family Papers, 1911-1987
Extent: 2.0 Folders
Date Acquired: 05/09/2018
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection of postcards includes greeting cards for various holidays as well as postcards from all over the United States. Two cards depict anti-black imagery in the pickaninny caricature style. Many of the cards have notes written mostly to Mr. and Mrs. George Worlund of Brandenburg, Kentucky. Many of the notes are brief hellos; however, some do give news such as the death of a brother or other news of family and friends. The collection also includes two unidentified photographs.
Collection Historical Note
George H. Worland (1872-1943) was born in Meade County, Kentucky, son of Barney Worland and Elizabeth Gough. He married Zula J. Malin (1872-1958) in 1898. In the early 1900s Worland owned a drug store in Brandenburg, KY, and according to census records he was employed in a dry goods store and a bank in 1920 and 1930 respectively.The Worlands did not have any children, but had numerous extended family members.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Northern, Janet
Box and Folder Listing
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- Folder 1
- Item 1: Christmas Postcard
- Item 2: Christmas Postcard, 1911
- Item 3: Christmas Postcard
- Item 4: Christmas Postcard
- Item 5: Christmas Postcard, 1911
- Item 6: Christmas Postcard
- Item 7: Thanksgiving Postcard
- Creator: Falls City Post Card Co.
- Item 8: Birthday Postcard, 1911
- Item 9: Christmas Postcard
- Item 10: Christmas Postcard
- Item 11: Greeting Card
- Creator: Falls City Post Card Co.
- Item 12: Thanksgiving Postcard
- Creator: Falls City Post Card Co.
- Item 13: Scene in Cherokee Park, Louisville, KY, 1911
- Creator: F.M. Kirby and Co.
- Item 14: Christmas Postcard
- Item 15: Christmas Postcard
- Item 16: On the St. John's River, Florida, 1911
- Creator: A.C. Bosselman and Co.
- Item 17: Interior View, New York Post office, Dade City, Fla., 1911
- Creator: F.C. Kropp Co.
- Item 18: On Main Street. Jacksonville Fla., 1911
- Creator: Valentine and Sons' Publishing Co.
- Item 19: Abbey of Gethsemane, Nelson County, near Bardstown, KY., 1934
- Creator: L.F. Mattingly
- Item 20: Kalmia Cascade, near Monteagle, 1907
- Item 21: Thanksgiving Postcard, 1908
- Creator: International Art Publ. Co.
- Item 22: Oriental Foreign Exhibit Building, 1909
- Creator: Portland Post Card Co.
- Item 23: Live Stock Pavilion, State Fair Grounds, Front Entrance, Louisville, KY., 1912
- Item 24: St. Francis Academy, Owensboro. KY., 1909
- Item 25: Hotel Havlin, Cincinnati, 1911
- Creator: The Schultz Printing Works
- Item 26: New Year Postcard, 1909
- Creator: Raphael Tuck and Sons
- Item 27: Spring Greeting Card, 1910
- Item 28: Entrance to Cherokee Park, Louisville, KY.
- Item 29: Osage County Court House, Pawhuska, Okla., 1939
- Item 30: The Famous Crab Orchard Springs Hotel, Crab Orchard, KY., 1935
- Item 31: Washington Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul. Washington D.C.
- Creator: B.S. Reynolds Co.
- Item 32: Publishing House Methodist Episcopal Church, South Nashville Tennessee, 1911
- Item 33: U.S. Capitol, East Front, 1911
- Item 34: Old Plantation Cabin, "In Old Kentucky", 1940
- Creator: E.C. Kropp Co.
- Item 35: Residence of Senator Clark, N.Y. City
- Item 36: Park Row, N.Y. City
- Item 37: Court House, Louisville, KY.
- Item 38: Citizen's Bank and Trust Co., Middlesboro, KY., 1910
- Item 39: Main Hotel Building, Crab Orchard Springs, Crab Orchard, KY., 1922
- Item 40: Greeting Card, 1911
- Item 41: Sunrise on Ohio River, Mouth of Fourteen Mile Creek, Fern Grove, Ind.
- Creator: F, A, Mason, Jeffersonville, Ind.
- Item 42: New Dancing Pavilion, Cerulean, KY., 1911
- Creator: Cerulean Springs Hotel Co.
- Item 43: Home with Orange Grove, Jan. 1st 1910, Dade City, Fla., 1911
- Item 44: Cucumber Plants in Bloom, Dade City, Fla., 1911
- Item 45: Easter Greeting Card, 1911
- Item 46: Greeting Card, 1911
- Item 47: Easter Greeting Card, 1911
- Item 48: St. Patrick's Day Postcard, 1911
- Item 49: Mobile, Ala., Washington Square
- Item 50: Easter Greeting Card, 1911
- Item 51: Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, 1909
- Item 52: Greeting Card, 1911
- Creator: Raphael Tuck and Sons
- Item 53: The Capitol, 1911
- Creator: B.S. Reynolds Co.
- Item 54: Greeting Card, 1948
- Item 55: Fourth Ave. Methodist Church, Louisville, KY., 1910
- Creator: Bagby-Howe Drug Co.
- Item 56: Greeting Card, 1911
- Item 57: South Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY., 1909
- Item 58: Post Office and Court House, Huntington, W. Va., 1910
- Creator: Valentine and Sons' Publishing Co.
- Item 59: Birthday Postcard, 1911
- Item 60: Thanksgiving Postcard, 1911
- Item 61: The Old Homestead, 1908
- Item 62: Brown Place Hotel, Denver, Colorado, 1909
- Creator: Williamson Haffner Co.
- Item 63: Boardwalk South from Brighton Casino, Atlantic City, N.J., 1916
- Creator: The Post Card Distributing Co.
- Item 64: Birthday Postcard, 1911
- Item 65: Ohio River by Moonlight, Owensboro, Kentucky, 1910
- Creator: The Indiana News Company
- Item 66: Christmas Postcard, 1910
- Item 67: Big Four Bridge- Louisville, 1907
- Item 68: Greeting Card, 1907
- Item 69: Greeting Card, 1910
- Item 70: Madison, Wisconsin Overlooking Monona Bay- Lake Mendota in the Distance, 1938
- Creator: E.A. Bishop
- Item 71: Easter Greeting Card, 1907
- Creator: Douglas Post-Card Co.
- Item 72: Thanksgiving Postcard, 1909
- Creator: Raphael Tuck and Sons
- Item 73: Easter Greeting Card, 1910
- Item 74: The Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, KY., 1909
- Creator: Raphael Tuck and Sons
- Item 75: New Year Postcard, 1909
- Item 76: Christmas Postcard, 1909
- Item 77: The Hermitage, 1909
- Creator: Draughon's Post Card
- Item 78: Thanksgiving Postcard, 1910
- Item 79: Louisville Ky., in Cave Hill, one of the Lakes, 1910
- Creator: The Hugh C. Leighton Co.
- Item 80: Greeting Card, 1911
- Creator: B.B. London and New York
- Item 81: New Years Postcard, 1912
- Item 82: Birthday Postcard, 1910
- Item 83: Third Avenue, East from Ninth Street, Huntington, W. Va., 1910
- Creator: Valentine And Sons' Publishing Co.
- Item 84: The Old Mill in Cherokee Falls, Louisville, KY., 1910
- Creator: Bagby-Howe Drug Co.
- Item 85: Christmas Postcard
- Item 86: Christmas Postcard, 1909
- Creator: Raphael Tuck and Sons
- Item 87: Frederica Street, Looking North from 7th Street, Owensboro, KY., 1910
- Creator: The Indiana News Company
- Item 88: New Years Postcard, 1910
- Item 89: "Go I, You" Cowboy Postcard
- Creator: Williamson Haffner Co.
- Item 90: Sioux Indian Papooses, 1908
- Creator: The Thayer Publishing Company, Denver
- Item 91: White Star Liner, "Olympic."
- Item 92: Carnegie Library, Louisville, Ky.
- Creator: F. M. Kirby & Co.
- Item 93: On the beautiful St. John's River, Florida, 1911
- Creator: H. & W. B. Drew Co.
- Item 94: Lake Jovita, Near San Antonio, Florida, 1911
- Creator: Lamke & Carrol, Pub.
- Item 95: " Remember Me" Flower Postcard, 1911
- Item 96: " A Merry Christmas", 1908
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