Antique & Vintage Postcards

A glowing sunset bathes the dramatic cliffs of Hardangerfjord, Norway in amber and violet, while a four-funneled ocean liner steams past a tiny fjord-side settlement where two figures stand at the water's edge — a romantic chromolithograph image that carried a breathless real-life story from Rochester, New York, on January 21, 1909. On the back, the sender recounts a minor comedy of errors: a lost key, a helpful policeman, a long walk, and arriving home exhausted near midnight — the kind of ordinary human drama that makes old postcards extraordinary windows into everyday Edwardian life. The card was sent to Mrs. J.M. (first name unknown) at 22 Jefferson Avenue, delivered locally within Rochester itself for just one cent.