Antique & Vintage Postcards

Moonlight spills across a glassy Lake Michigan in this haunting 1906 real-photo style printed postcard, the silver-blue tones capturing a distant headland silhouetted against a luminous sky — a scene that clearly moved someone enough to mail it from Cleveland at 2:30 in the morning. The card was sent by a writer (first name partially legible on the image side margin) to a woman named Burnetta in Laurel Springs, New Jersey, and the cramped, urgent cursive crowding the picture side hints at a message that couldn't wait for the address panel. The postcard predates the divided-back era's full adoption, bearing the hallmark "This Side Is for the Address" instruction on the reverse.