MS057
Alice Morriss Fechtig Post Card Collection
1929-1969

Alice “Allie” Fechtig was born in Wilmington, NC on July 25, 1896 and was the daughter of the later Frederick Hart and Allie Allen Fechtig.  During her lifetime Miss Fechtig was a world traveler and collected hundreds of postal cards from the many cities and countries that she visited.  Many of her friends would send her cards from their travels.  Miss Fechtig died in Wilmington, NC on January 25, 1971.

This is a collection of eleven albums of postal cards, one hundred and sixteen loose postal cards, seven photographs and two copies of a diary of letters and cables written to her father on her tour of Europe, June 6-September 16, 1929.  Many of the cards in the Collections are in color and some appear to be hand painted.  They include the major European tourist attractions.  Other countries included in the Collection are the United States and Hawaii, the Caribbean Island, Russia and Japan.  Of the postage cards received from friends, almost all of them still have the postage stamps affixed.

The Estate of Alice Morriss Fechtig was to the William Madison Randall Library on March 29, 1971. 

           
The Collection has been designated Accession Number 57 of the Manuscripts Collection, Special Collections Department, William Madison Randall Library, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297.

There are no access restrictions on this collection. 

Processed by Lana Donaldson Taylor

Special Collections Librarian
Manuscripts Collection
William Madison Randall Library
The University of North Carolina Wilmington

April 20, 1989

Inventory
Manuscript/Box/File

57/1/1
Two leather-bound scrap books of letters to "Father".  June 7, 1929 to Sept. 6, 1929  The books contain the same letters: one is a copy.