Antique & Vintage Postcards

In March 1911, Walter penned a breezy three-line note to his friend Arthur — "Well, how is Arthur? I hope you are fine" — and dropped this vivid street-scene postcard in the mail from Cleveland, capturing one of America's most storied commercial boulevards at the height of its grandeur. Euclid Avenue looking east from Public Square teems with life: electric streetcars glide past horse-drawn wagons, fashionably dressed pedestrians stroll the iron-fenced park, and the red-brick May Company anchors the right foreground while Bond's and other establishments line the left. Published by the Americhrome imprint of the Cleveland News Company, with production shared between Leipzig, Berlin, and New York, this richly colored card is a superb time capsule of Gilded Age urban commerce just before the automobile age transformed the streetscape forever.