Manufacturer: Syracuse China
User: Nurses Home
Date of examples (only one backstamp shown): 1920-23
Notes: We have been unable to find a definitive ID for this topmark, but the seller of a large set bought them in Abbeville, S.C., which is 13 miles away from the former Nurses Home residence in Greenwood, S.C., that was on the grounds of the Greenwood Hospital (see map above).
Per postcards, "The cornerstone of the Greenwood County Hospital was laid on July 6, 1911, with Masonic rites conducted by Lodge #91. The $12,000, 35-bed facility located at West Creswell and Edgefield Avenues opened later that year. A $25,000 wing was added in 1924, which brought its patient capacity to 52."
And the text for the Nurses Home, on the same page: "This two-story, $5,000 nurses' residence, a gift from William H. Bailey, was erected on the hospital grounds in 1914."
(It is hard to resist adding a snarky comment about the postcards – both in color and black-and-white – that show the ghostly apparitions of four nurses seemingly cut and pasted onto the residence's front porch and steps.)
Sources:
South Carolina Postcards
Color postcard: courtesy collections of the South Carolina Historical Society