U.S. Post Office, Lynchburg, VA, circa 1932
- Subject
- Post Offices
- Card type
- Linen
- Date
- c. 1932 (Linen)
About this postcard
The U.S. Post Office in Lynchburg, Virginia, fills the corner view: a three-story light-stone federal building with a red tile roof, rows of sash windows, and a colonnaded end bay. An American flag flies above the roofline, and a large shade tree frames the right side of the street. Lynchburg, on the James River in the Virginia Piedmont, was a tobacco and shoe-manufacturing center. The building's classical stone front marked the federal presence downtown, and the post office served a city that had grown through rail and river trade. Like many federal post offices of the period, it was built under the Treasury Department's public buildings program, which gave mid-sized cities monumental classical offices; this one also housed federal courtrooms.
Postcard Details
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Postcard record
| Publisher | J. P. Bell Co., Inc. |
|---|---|
| Series | N.751 |
| Condition | Very good |
| Place depicted | U.S. Post Office, Lynchburg, VA |
| Publisher | J. P. Bell Co., Inc., Lynchburg, VA |
| Notes | Linen-textured stock with visible crosshatch; production code "2C-H415" printed in the lower right corner (Curt Teich numbering), with series "N.751"; publisher J. P. Bell Co., Inc., Lynchburg, Va.; photographer credit Fred Dudley Photo. No white border; image runs to the edge. Unused card — no postmark, no message, no address. Divided-back 'POST CARD' with stamp box ("PLACE STAMP HERE"); Curteich 'C.T. Art-Colortone' imprint (1930s–40s); linen-textured stock, full-bleed front with no white border. |
Cite this card
U.S. Post Office, Lynchburg, VA, circa 1932, postcard, c. 1932. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/u-s-post-office-lynchburg-va-circa-1932. Accessed November 2, 2026.