Antique & Vintage Postcards

A hand-colored Edwardian-era gem, this 1911 postcard captures St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island — its Gothic Revival stone nave and soaring spire rising against a painterly blue sky dabbed with white clouds. St. Mary's holds a special place in American history as the parish where Jacqueline Bouvier married John F. Kennedy in 1953, but in 1911 it was simply a beloved Newport landmark worth mailing home. What makes this card extraordinary for collectors is its postmark: cancelled aboard the U.S.S. Mississippi on November 28, 1911, a battleship then serving in the Atlantic Fleet, giving this modest church card a compelling naval provenance. Anna received warm holiday-season greetings — "with love and best wishes" — mailed all the way to Baldwins, Long Island, New York.