Airplane view of Asheville, North Carolina, circa 1940

Subjects: Aerial Views & Panoramas Mountains & Hills Town & City Views
Card type: Linen
Date: c. 1930 (White Border)

Back of Airplane view of Asheville, North Carolina, circa 1940, c. 1930 linen postcard — Back

About this postcard

An aerial view looks down over the dense downtown of Asheville, North Carolina, with its grid of commercial blocks, a domed courthouse-like building and taller office towers, ringed by the green slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains under a pale sunset sky. The card's own caption bills the city as being "In the Land of the Sky," a promotional nickname popularized for Asheville in the late nineteenth century. Asheville grew as a railroad and resort town and by the 1920s had a substantial Art Deco and Beaux-Arts downtown, much of which survives today.

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PublisherAsheville Post Card Co.

A-1 AIRPLANE VIEW OF ASHEVILLE, N. C. "IN THE LAND OF THE SKY" E-6703 --- Situated upon a high mountain table-land 2300 feet above the sea, and commanding a sweeping panorama of mile-high mountains, Asheville occupies perhaps the most beautiful setting of any city in America. The drifting clouds touching the summits of the mountains and the many days of sunshine, have given to the Asheville region its distinctive title, "The Land of the Sky." POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE PUBLISHED BY ASHEVILLE POST CARD CO., ASHEVILLE, N. C.

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Postcard record

Publisher	Asheville Post Card Co.
Series	A-1
Condition	Very good
Place depicted	Asheville, NC
Notes	Linen-textured stock with a white border; printed card number E-6703 at lower right and series code A-1 at upper left. No postmark — unused card. Divided-back linen-textured card with white border; printed Asheville Post Card Co. imprint; faint pencil "150" at top center.

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Airplane view of Asheville, North Carolina, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/airplane-view-of-asheville-north-carolina-circa-1940. Accessed October 24, 2026.