Burge Family Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0715
Scope and Contents
This accession contains postcards collected by Lillian Mae Burge Wilson, Mammie Lee Wilson Bailey, Billy Burge, and Dolly Burge from Grove Hill and Birmingham, Alabama. The postcards show geographic scenes from Alabama, caricatures of African-Americans, one postcard with a swastika symbolizing good luck in the 1900s, and various other geographic, artistic and comical images.
Dates
- 1906-1913
- 1923
- 1926
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Biographical / Historical
The Burges were a family residing in Grove Hill and Birmingham, Alabama in the early 1900s.
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet (1 doc box)
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Guide to the Burge Family Collection
- Author
- Processed by: Javan Frazier Digitized by: Noah Biblis
- Date
- 2004-08-18; 2020-09-11
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Contact:
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
