Antique & Vintage Postcards

A horse-drawn carriage rounds a sweeping gravel path at the entrance to Ethan Allen Park in Burlington, Vermont, while a gentleman stands at the door of a vine-covered pavilion to the right — a perfectly composed Edwardian summer scene rendered in the soft chromolithographic palette of the mid-1910s. Named for Vermont's Revolutionary War hero, Ethan Allen Park was donated to Burlington by railroad magnate Levi Fuller in 1904 and remains a beloved city green space today. This card was sent from Burlington on April 14, 1915, to Miss Mabel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sender — writing from "Sherwood, Burlington, Vermont" — fills the card with enthusiastic description of the city, mentioning enjoying carriage rides from town ("our traps go to the city"), the beauty of the surroundings, and references to a companion named "Alice" who apparently would not be in Burlington until fall. The postmark is faint but legible, and the card carries no stamp (or stamp removed).