Antique & Vintage Postcards

Step behind the swinging doors of The Greylock, Williamstown, Massachusetts's grand resort hotel, where more than a dozen cooks and kitchen workers — some in white chef's coats, one in a dark suit who is almost certainly the lessee Henry himself — pose amid a vast professional kitchen lined with hanging copper pans, industrial ranges, and long prep tables in this rare hand-colored postcard from the early 1910s. The Greylock, nestled in the Berkshire Hills near Williams College, drew well-heeled summer guests seeking mountain air and refined dining; this card was likely produced as a promotional piece celebrating the hotel's culinary operation. The "Hand-colored" credit printed in the lower left is an honest acknowledgment of the laborious tinting process applied to a photographic base — a technique that bridges the RPPC and linen eras. Henry N. Teague, named as Lessee, was the entrepreneur who operated the property during this period.