Description
The Greenville National Exchange Bank in Greenville, Texas, is shown on this vintage postcard, a light gray building with many windows and an arched entryway topped by a US flag. The back boasts Greenville’s impressive agricultural statistics, including its cotton compress and flour mill. This colorful postcard dates to approximately the 1960s.
Front Text (cleaned):
Greenville National Exchange Bank, Greenville, Texas
3333
1963-29
Back Text (cleaned):
WHITEST BLACKEST GREENVILLE, TEXAS
WELCOME
Population 14,224, has the largest inland cotton compress in the world—largest flour mill in East Texas. County seat of Hunt County.
Averages 60,000 bales of cotton—a million bushels of corn—six hundred thousand bushels of oats annually. Has twelve thousand milking cows. Home of U.S. Cotton Field Station.
GENUINE CURTEICH-CHICAGO "C.T. AMERICAN ART" POST CARD (REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.)
POST CARD
THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY
PLACE
ONE CENT
STAMP
HERE
