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Greetings from De Queen, Arkansas
- Date
- c. 1940s
- State
- Arkansas
- City
- De Queen
- Publisher
- Quapaw Printing Co., Little Rock, Arkansas
- Format
- Large-letter linen postcard
- Reference number
- 16105
The name De Queen is printed in the red sky above the same oversized ARKANSAS lettering and statewide views used on the companion card. Both cards carry reference number 16105. The added city name shows how a publisher could turn a statewide design into a local souvenir.
De Queen grew around a railroad route through southwest Arkansas in the late 1890s. The town took its name from Jan de Goeijen, a Dutch merchant who helped finance the line. By the 1930s, the Sevier County courthouse and the shops around its square gave county residents a place to handle official business and buy supplies in one trip.
Sources
- National Register of Historic Places · De Queen Commercial Historic District
- Original postcard, front and back · Crumb Paper Archive
- City of De Queen · City history
- Newberry Library · History of large-letter postcards