Antique & Vintage Postcards

Haunting and romantic, this pre-linen photographic color-printed postcard captures the moonlit stillness of the bay at Atlantic City, New Jersey, where a long wooden dock stretches across the foreground and small rowboats rock silently in the silver-gilt water — the moon itself half-veiled by dramatic clouds, its reflection shimmering in a golden column across the surface. Postmarked March 7, 1910, at 8:30 PM from Atlantic City, this card traveled to Miss Nelle in care of Mr. J.N. Chandler at Euclid Heights on Overlook Road in Cleveland, Ohio — a journey from the Jersey Shore to the Western Reserve that hints at the era's vibrant postcard-craze culture, when friends mailed scenic views the way we now send texts. The card bears a green 1¢ Franklin stamp (Scott #331 or similar), consistent with the 1908–1909 Washington-Franklin series, lightly cancelled with the Atlantic City machine cancel and wavy lines.