Scope and Contents
Includes the following items: Postcard of Hotel Maison Rouge where Walker stayed in Strasbourg, France November 19-21, 1948 (In Walker's handwriting. It is not addressed to anyone. It may have been included in an envelope perhaps with a letter.); Postcard of the Eiffel Tower from "Carmelo and Garnie." 1949 (In Walker's handwriting, stamped addressed to her mother home on the farm. "Mrs. Albert S. Walker, Ivydale, West Virginia U. S. A." GW and Carmelo Testa were on their honeymoon in Paris, May 1949.); Postcard showing the Hotel de Ville, a bridge over the Seine with a boat. 1949 (From Walker, stamped and addressed to "Mrs. Gene Hamrick" Clay WV. This was Wallker's sister, Justena Walker Hamrick.); 2 postcards from Pvt. Garnie W. Walker in Iowa where she was in training at Fort Des Moines (one sent to sister Josephine and one sent to brother Leonard); 2 postcards from Pfc. Garnie W. Walker at Fort Myer, VA (both sent to Josephine)
Dates
- Creation: 1944-1949
Repository Details
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository
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