Pine Hills Hotel View From the Bay, Pass Christian, Mississippi

Authors

Files

Contributor

Barber, H. R.

Description

This color postcard features Pine Hills Hotel as seen from the water of the bay. The title along the bottom of the card reads "Pine Hills Hotel on the Bay, Harrison County, Miss." The back of the postcard identifies the item as a postcard. A red two cent postage stamp is in the upper right corner and the card is postmarked Jackson, Mississippi, July 27, 1927. The description in the upper left corner reads "Pine Hills Hotel on the Bay, Harrison County, Miss. This hotel is located at Shell-Beach-on-the-Bay, near Pass Christian, Mississippi. It has 250 rooms and cost three quarters of a million dollars. Not the least of its many attractions is the finest golf course in the South where the game may be played winter and summer under ideal conditions." The card is inscribed and is addressed to Miss Georgia Penwood in Dowagiac, Michigan.

Transcription

Georgia, How was your vacation? Hope it was as fine as mine for this is the best one I have had. This hotel is where you and Horace should spend your honeymoon. The rates are $15 per day and up mostly up. This is a beautiful country along the coast and I would like to live here. Walt

Publication Date

7-27-1927

Time Period

1920-1929

Subjects

Postcards; Hotels; Pass Christian, MS

Geographic Location

Pass Christian, MS

Object Type

image

Format (original)

postcard

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

MSS_837_Postcard_Pine-Hills-Hotel-on-the-Bay_001

Source

Mississippi State University Libraries, Manuscripts Division, Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Mississippiana Collection, Gulf Coast Sub-Collection

Repository

Manuscripts

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.MSState.edu.

Recommended Citation

Lucius Marion Lampton, MD Historical Images Collection, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University