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Main Street, Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1910

Card type
Lithograph

About this subject

A tinted view looking down Main Street in Norfolk, Virginia, with a brick streetcar and tracks running down the center of the cobbled roadway. Pedestrians in period dress crowd the sidewalk in front of storefronts on the left, while a tall multi-story brick commercial block with striped awnings stands on the right beside a columned building with steps.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Hello and good-by. & R. E.

PostmarkedPhiladelphia, PA
Stamp
Addressed to
Miss Alma Klinger

R.F.D. #2, McAlisterville, PA

FromMusser

Postcard record

PostmarkedPhiladelphia, PA
ConditionFair
Place addressedAlma Klinger, R.F.D. #2, McAlisterville, PA
Place depictedMain Street, Norfolk, VA
Stamp1c Capt. John Smith, green, issued 1907
NotesWhite margin at right carrying the printed caption and a handwritten message; undivided-back era card with flat printed color typical of chromolithography. Postmark: PORTSMOUTH JUL 2 4-30P / PHILADELPHIA PA JUL 28 5 PM. Undivided back ('This Side for the Address Only'), 1c green Franklin, no year legible in either postmark; 'Musser' written vertically at left edge.

Cite this card

Main Street, Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/main-street-norfolk-virginia-circa-1910. Accessed October 5, 2026.