Two modest shingle-sided summer cottages sit beneath a broad shade tree at Oak Point, Hammond, New York, with the St. Lawrence River glimpsed behind — a real photo postcard produced by a small regional photo service that turned customer negatives into custom cards for Thousand Islands vacationers throughout the 1940s and '50s.

• Caption: "Lawrence House and Baxter House, Oak Point, Hammond, N.Y."
• Publisher: $5-Photo-Co., Photo Park, Canton, New York
• Status: Unposted