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The Dayton Biltmore hotel, Dayton, OH, 1946

Subjects
Commercial BuildingsHotels & Inns
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1946 (Chrome)
Front of The Dayton Biltmore hotel, Dayton, OH, 1946, c. 1946 linen postcard
Front
Back of The Dayton Biltmore hotel, Dayton, OH, 1946, c. 1946 linen postcard
Back

About this postcard

Color view of the Dayton Biltmore, a tall hotel with a red-brick facade, a light stone base and top floors, and an American flag flying from the roof. Arched storefronts and awnings line the ground floor, with a few pedestrians and vintage automobiles at the street corner below. The Biltmore was Dayton's downtown showpiece hotel, built at the end of the 1920s when the city was a thriving manufacturing center. On the back, the writer sends a chatty note to a friend about her coming trip to Florida, wishes she were going along, and mentions a cousin who spends nearly every winter there.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear Grace:- How I envy your grand trip to Florida! Wish I were going along. I have a cousin who goes nearly every winter and works to pay this summer She gets so much fun out of it. Don't forget to send me a card now & then I don't know what ails this bottle of ink. It just wants to run Marie Lewis 1035 Eastman St Zanesville, Ohio

PublisherWilkie Picture & Puzzle Co.
THE DAYTON BILTMORE, DAYTON, OHIO
PostmarkedZanesville, OH, May 2, 1946, 09:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Mrs. Grace Sullivan

3631 Ash Street Baltimore, MD 11

FromMrs. Laura, 1035 Eastman St, Zanesville, OH

Postcard record

Postmarked, Zanesville, OH
PublisherWilkie Picture & Puzzle Co.
Series11935
ConditionGood
Place addressedMrs. Grace Sullivan, 3631 Ash Street, Baltimore, MD, 11
Place depictedThe Dayton Biltmore, Dayton, OH
PublisherWilkie Picture & Puzzle Co., Dayton, OH
Place sent fromMrs. Laura, 1035 Eastman St, Zanesville, OH
Stamp1c George Washington, green, issued 1909
Stamp1c George Washington, green, issued 1938, perforated on all sides
NotesLinen-textured stock with visible crosshatch grain; green photo-album corner mounts at the top corners of the scan; white border not present. Postmark: ZANESVILLE, OHIO MAY 2 PM 1946. Divided-back linen-era Kropp 'Natural Color' card; light edge wear and minor foxing.

Cite this card

The Dayton Biltmore hotel, Dayton, OH, 1946, postcard, c. 1946. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/the-dayton-biltmore-hotel-dayton-oh-1946. Accessed November 2, 2026.