Before the celebrities and the summer crowds arrived, Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard was a working waterfront town, and Norton's Pier captures it raw and honest — weathered shingle sheds leaning into the salt air, a long plank dock crowded with dories and catboats, schooner masts cutting the overcast sky, and a figure crouched in a small skiff amid the clutter of buckets and rope. This atmospheric black-and-white Albertype view was published by the Edgartown Drug Co. and printed by The Albertype Co. of Brooklyn, New York — one of the most respected American postcard printers of the early twentieth century, known for their rich continuous-tone collotype process that rendered texture and detail with a depth that halftone lithography could not match. The divided back and undivided address panel suggest a production date in the 1907–1915 window, making this one of the earliest photographic postcard records of Edgartown's commercial waterfront. Norton's Pier no longer exists in this form; the working fishing infrastructure visible here was gradually replaced as tourism supplanted the maritime trades.