A tall, light-colored office block with a columned entrance and rows of windows stands at a street corner, a darker red-brick building beside it and a street receding to the right. The building is identified as the Peoples National Bank Building in Lynchburg, Virginia. Lynchburg, on the James River in the Virginia Piedmont, was a tobacco and shoe-manufacturing center, and its early-20th-century downtown held commercial blocks and bank headquarters of this scale.
Linen texture with a white border; stock number "48872-N" printed vertically at the right edge.
No postmark; card is unused, the one-cent stamp box left empty. Divided back with printed "POST CARD" heading; publisher imprint of J. P. Bell Co., Inc., Lynchburg, Va., printed vertically at the left edge, with "C. T. American Art" (Curt Teich), Reg. U. S. Pat. Off., along the divider line and the circular Bell-Chrome "Superior-Quality" bell trademark logo, c. 1930s-40s. White border and linen-textured stock; light toning/foxing along edges.
Cite this card
Peoples National Bank Building, Lynchburg, Virginia, circa 1935, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/peoples-national-bank-building-lynchburg-virginia-circa-1935. Accessed November 2, 2026.
