Old Heritage Halls, BYU, Utah
=====Description Information=====
Postcard title: Old Heritage Halls, BYU, Utah-Back.
Publisher: Geo Mc Co., Murray, Utah, USA.
Date published: Circa 1960.
Printed text: Heritage Halls, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The memories of 16 prominent LDS women were perpetuated when BYU named the Heritage Halls. They will house nearly 1000 women students.
The buildings are unique in that they each have 10 apartments in which the girls live as a family of companions rather than with single roommates.
Published by Geo. Mc Co., Box 7146, Murray Utah.
Color by Larry Rutherford
5447-C
Dexter Press Inc. founder Thomas A. Dexter began printing postcards in 1934 in New York and New Jersey. The collection, donated by Tommie Dexter Reardon, daughter of the founder of the company, includes job printing files; black and white, linen finish, and chrome postcards; and a box of black and white photographs used to make the black and white postcards. A later addition includes photographs and negatives, postcard samples, framed photographs, 3-D postcards, and other assorted postcards. Rounding out the collection are photographs of the interior and exterior of the Dexter Press offices, and a scrapbook with articles, photographs, and brochures from the 1920s to the 1990s.
The business records of Dexter Press are held at The Newberry Library as part of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, Chicago, Ill, USA.
Postmarked: unpostmarked.
Stamp: unused.
Postcard period: Photochrome, 1945-Present.
Location found: Online-Ebay.
Date found: December 20, 2020.
Price paid: $0.12.
Dimension: 3 1/2 x 5 /12 in.
Notes: All scans are uploaded as archival quality at 600 dpi with lossless file type, .tiff.
Sources:
"Dexter Press Inc. Records, 1934-Approximately 1992." The Newberry, Identifier: Modern.MS.Dexter, mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Dexter.xml. Accessed January 5, 2021.
Coates, Katherine. "Lat Building in Old BYU's Heritage Halls Demolished." The Daily Universe, 2 Feb, 2014, universe.byu.edu/2014/02/02/construction-moves-forward-at.... Accessed January 7, 2021.
Franzen, Josh. "Heritage Halls." Intermountain Histories, 23 Aug, 2019,
www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/148. Accessed January 7, 2021.
Old Heritage Halls, BYU, Utah
=====Description Information=====
Postcard title: Old Heritage Halls, BYU, Utah-Back.
Publisher: Geo Mc Co., Murray, Utah, USA.
Date published: Circa 1960.
Printed text: Heritage Halls, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The memories of 16 prominent LDS women were perpetuated when BYU named the Heritage Halls. They will house nearly 1000 women students.
The buildings are unique in that they each have 10 apartments in which the girls live as a family of companions rather than with single roommates.
Published by Geo. Mc Co., Box 7146, Murray Utah.
Color by Larry Rutherford
5447-C
Dexter Press Inc. founder Thomas A. Dexter began printing postcards in 1934 in New York and New Jersey. The collection, donated by Tommie Dexter Reardon, daughter of the founder of the company, includes job printing files; black and white, linen finish, and chrome postcards; and a box of black and white photographs used to make the black and white postcards. A later addition includes photographs and negatives, postcard samples, framed photographs, 3-D postcards, and other assorted postcards. Rounding out the collection are photographs of the interior and exterior of the Dexter Press offices, and a scrapbook with articles, photographs, and brochures from the 1920s to the 1990s.
The business records of Dexter Press are held at The Newberry Library as part of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Collection, Chicago, Ill, USA.
Postmarked: unpostmarked.
Stamp: unused.
Postcard period: Photochrome, 1945-Present.
Location found: Online-Ebay.
Date found: December 20, 2020.
Price paid: $0.12.
Dimension: 3 1/2 x 5 /12 in.
Notes: All scans are uploaded as archival quality at 600 dpi with lossless file type, .tiff.
Sources:
"Dexter Press Inc. Records, 1934-Approximately 1992." The Newberry, Identifier: Modern.MS.Dexter, mms.newberry.org/xml/xml_files/Dexter.xml. Accessed January 5, 2021.
Coates, Katherine. "Lat Building in Old BYU's Heritage Halls Demolished." The Daily Universe, 2 Feb, 2014, universe.byu.edu/2014/02/02/construction-moves-forward-at.... Accessed January 7, 2021.
Franzen, Josh. "Heritage Halls." Intermountain Histories, 23 Aug, 2019,
www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/148. Accessed January 7, 2021.