Mattie Keel Riner Postcard Collection
name: label: Donor
content: Riner, Ed
label: Author
content: Riner, Novie Ocy, 1890-1964
label: Collector
content: Riner, Mattie Keel, 1896-1980
topic: label: Topic
content: Tourist trade -- 1910-1940
label: Topic
content: Courtship -- 1910-1940 -- United States
label: Topic
content: Depressions -- 1929 -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated to the Archives Center, December 10, 1997 by Edward Riner, son of Mattie and Novie Riner. The cards remained in the family for years, and the donor used them in school work, losing or destroying some in the process.
creator: label: Donor
content: Riner, Ed
label: Author
content: Riner, Novie Ocy, 1890-1964
label: Collector
content: Riner, Mattie Keel, 1896-1980
setName: label: See more items in
content: Mattie Keel Riner Postcard Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Novie Ocy Riner was a mail carrier in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. On September 1, 1932, Novie Ocy Riner and his friend Roscoe Hatch set off for the National Association of Letter Carriers' Convention in Portland, Oregon. After the convention, the two men drove down the Pacific Coast, presumably in Hatch's Model A Ford, stopping in San Francisco, then to Los Angeles, San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. After September 26, 1932,they began the trip home again. On each day of his trip, Novie sent a ostcard to Mattie Keel, his future wife, Mattie Keel, who was in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.  Their courtship lasted nearly ten years, having been delayed by the Depression, and illness. They eloped in 1937.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Boxe (30 items)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912-1932
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0629
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Picture postcards
label: Type
content: Postcards
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is divided into two series.

Series 1: P0stcards, 1912-1915

Series 2: Postcards, 1932-09 to 1932-10
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Jennifer Synder, intern, July 1997.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Picture postcards -- 1910-1940
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards -- 1900-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of the surviving postcards sent to Mattie Keel by Mr. Riner on a 1932 trip, plus cards sent to Ms. Keel by earlier suitors, 1912-1915.