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Postcard 1910 Bruce School Lawrence Mass Rotograph Color Divided Back Used
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Pre-linen · 1910

Postcard 1910 Bruce School Lawrence Mass Rotograph Color Divided Back Used

Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA1910Pre-linenGood

Sent on a warm August evening in 1910, this vivid hand-colored view of the Bruce School in Lawrence, Massachusetts captures the proud Romanesque Revival building in its full civic glory — the soaring clock tower standing sentry over the red-brick facade, horse and buggy paused on the street below as if time itself is holding still. A sender named Elizabeth dashed off a brief, affectionate note to a young woman named E.J. in Rockdale, Massachusetts, mentioning a Tuesday visit and a warm family scene, sealing it with a 1-cent Benjamin Franklin green stamp. Lawrence was then one of New England's great industrial cities, its schools monuments to working-class aspirations amid the mill town's textile wealth. The Bruce School itself served generations of Lawrence children; this postcard captures it in its Edwardian prime, before the turbulent 1912 Bread and Roses Strike would reshape the city's identity forever. The address — Lock Box 35, Rockdale — conjures a quiet village life far removed from Lawrence's factory floors.

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