Antique & Vintage Postcards

A treehouse fantasy comes to life in this vivid chromolithograph: the Log Cabin "Linwood Cottage" at Silver Lake near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, its wraparound lower porch and elevated deck-in-the-treetops both crowded with women in white Edwardian summer dresses — a perfect snapshot of leisure culture in the heyday of the Ohio resort era. The structure, built partly around a living tree, features a steep staircase to the upper observation platform where five women pose for the camera. Postmarked Kent, Ohio on August 30, 1909 — the very same date as PC-00064 in this batch — and sent to the same recipient Nellie at Euclid Heights, Cleveland. The writer, signing only initials "p J. C.," enthuses: "This is the place that look good to me I have been here three times and every time I was here I had a swell time."