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Postcard 1905 Utica NY Genesee Street Leporello Fold-Out Rotograph Souvenir
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Pre-linen · 1905

Postcard 1905 Utica NY Genesee Street Leporello Fold-Out Rotograph Souvenir

Utica, New York, USA1905Pre-linenFair-Good

From high above Utica's bustling Genesee Street, a rooftop camera captures the full sweep of one of upstate New York's grandest commercial thoroughfares circa 1905 — streetcar tracks gleaming, church steeples piercing the skyline, and a bold sign for "Halftone Engraving" speaking to the very printing trade that produced this card. This is the companion leporello-format souvenir mail card to a Schoharie example from the same Rotograph series, sharing the same Patent No. 806631 of December 5, 1905, and the same charming brass paper-fastener novelty construction that unfolds into a miniature accordion of Utica views. The interior strip reveals a grand domed Savings Bank of striking Beaux-Arts architecture, a view of Bleecker Street thronged with electric streetcars and telegraph poles, and St. Vincent Industrial School — a detailed snapshot of Gilded Age civic ambition. On the front, in elegant copperplate cursive, Mary has written: "Hope to hear from you soon. Excuse me for not writing sooner. With love from Mary Daedelow." The card was addressed to Mrs. W. R. Williams at 341 S. Hunter St., Stockton, California — a cross-country correspondence that speaks to the great internal migrations of the early 1900s. The Utica Savings Bank depicted was a beloved local landmark; Bleecker Street remains a major corridor today, though the streetcars are long gone.

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PC-00358 · Rotograph Co., N.Y. City (Germany)
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