Picture postcards have been a part of life for many years when people traveled far from home and sent them to show family the places where they had been and what they had seen.
Southeast Tennessee is no exception for the past trend of postcards with pictures of local places.
Below are links to postcards that are around and that we are fortunate to have been allowed to use.
Grant On Look Out Mountain was sent to us by Yvonne Green Bowman This postcard was made from a war time photo taken in 1862 on Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga TN.
Oak Ridge TN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE Located 18 miles west of Knoxville, grew from nothing to the fifth largest city in Tennessee during World War II with a population of nearly 75,000. Now, one of America's historic cities, it will ever remain associated with the greatest secret project of World War II. The Clinton Engineer Works, of which Oak Ridge is a part, covers a huge Government Reservation of 59,000 acres. The plants where raw material is separated by different methods, include more than 425 buildings. Sent by Yvonne Green Bowman.
Hwy 411 South Etowah to Benton
Copperhill ET-22 ONE OF THE MOST ERODED AREAS IN THE GREAT COPPER BASIN, TENNESSEE on U. S. Highway 64, between Copperhill, Ducktown, Tennessee and Murphy, North Carolina. From deep underneath this barron surface comes an Ore which is rich in several minerals. Photographed in Natural Color by Jack W. Bowers. Card provided by Yvonne Green.
Flume along hwy 64 ET-2 U. S. 64-MUNDIG BLUFF AND FLUME LINE- Between Ducktown and Cleveland, Tennessee. Photographed in Natural Color by Walter Cline. Card provided by Yvonne Green.
