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History of Post Cards   //   Gravures   //    Centennial Plaza   //   Gulfport Field   //   Gulfport   //  Great Southern Hotel  //   The Harbor   //

A Post card History of Gulfport
from the collection of Paul Jermyn

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The rise in popularity of the post card in the early 1900’s coincided with the rapid growth of Gulfport with its fledging industries eager for national recognition.   Post cards represent a unique and colorful history of the Gulf Coast in a very personal way.   They were as popular as ‘email’ is today, and the little hand written notes could be considered the first tweets.  









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