Visiting card with note on back

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Lynchburg VA, B. B. Becks, 1900

fine

1900 printed calligraphic visiting card for “B.B. Becks penman”, with penned addition: “24 Tams St. Staunton, Va,/ Va. Theo. Sem. & Coll. Lynchburg, Va.” The Virginia Technological Seminary and College had been founded by the Baptists in 1886, but acquired this name in 1900, which was also when the house at 24 Tams Street in Staunton was built.