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US Marine Hospital

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $9.95

Stock #:724578
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Norfolk
State: Virginia (VA)
County: Norfolk (city)
Publisher: Frank G. Ennis Paper Co.
Postmark: 1943 May-29
Postmark City: U.S. Navy
Postmark State: IL
Stamp: Free
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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Additional Details:
Is one of the finest of its kind and is located on the Lafayette River on the edge of a beautiful residential section. The United States Public Health Service had its actual inception in Norfolk, April 29, 1801, when Governor James Monroe of Virginia signed a direct transferring to the US Government a fairly large building situated at Washington Point, in Norfolk, for use as the first Marine Hospital of the United States.

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