A passenger steamship glides past two wooded islands on the St. Lawrence River in this aerial chrome-era view looking east from the Thousand Islands International Bridge — the water a vivid blue-green, private docks and a boathouse visible at right, a rowboat tucked against the rocky shore in the foreground. The card was published in the same year this image was made: 1959, when the St. Lawrence Seaway — a joint US-Canadian project to open deep-draft passage from the Gulf of St. Lawrence all the way to Lake Superior — was completed and opened to shipping, transforming the river from a scenic backwater into one of the great commercial waterways of North America. Someone mailed this from Cape Vincent, New York, that August, the message largely illegible but the postmark precisely placed in the summer the Seaway opened.

• Caption: "Looking east from the Thousand Islands International Bridge"
• Card no.: 81158
• Photographer: Pete Turner (Ektachrome)
• Publisher: Marks & Fuller, Inc., Rochester, N.Y.
• Postmark: Cape Vincent, N.Y., Aug 12, 1959
• Status: Posted