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Postcard 1920s First Presbyterian Church Brownwood Texas White Border
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Pre-linen · 1922

Postcard 1920s First Presbyterian Church Brownwood Texas White Border

Brownwood, Texas, USA1922Pre-linenExcellent

Stately columns and a gleaming Greek Revival pediment dominate this hand-colored white border postcard of the First Presbyterian Church in Brownwood, Texas — a small but prosperous West Texas city that built this impressive neoclassical sanctuary in the early 1920s. The church's four grand Ionic columns and hipped green roof rise above a canopy of young live oaks, while a lone early automobile — likely a Model T Ford — sits parked along the curb, grounding the scene in the Jazz Age. The card was never mailed, preserving its crisp borders and vivid coloring in exceptional condition, a pristine snapshot of civic and spiritual pride in small-town Texas between the wars.

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PC-00731 · Unknown (A-93012)
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