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Postcard 1905 Wind Mill Power Holland Dutch Windmill Illustrated Series 53
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Pre-linen · 1905

Postcard 1905 Wind Mill Power Holland Dutch Windmill Illustrated Series 53

Holland (Netherlands) — depicted subject1905Pre-linenFair-Good

A warmly tinted illustrated postcard captures the iconic silhouette of a great Dutch polder windmill rising above a thatched keeper's cottage on a grassy dike, with a second mill fading into the hazy ochre sky beyond — a scene that defined Holland's landscape identity for generations of travelers and pen-pals alike. Numbered 53 in what appears to be a multi-card educational or souvenir series titled Wind Mill Power – Holland, this pre-linen era card dates to the early 1900s when chromolithographic illustration was at its artistic peak. The reverse bears a pencil inscription addressed to someone whose first name reads as Kano, with fragmentary pencil notations suggesting the card was part of a personal collection or exchange. The undivided-back convention with the note "Domestic One Cent / Foreign Two Cents" places manufacture firmly in the 1901–1907 window of American postal regulation, though the subject is entirely Dutch, suggesting an American publisher sourcing European imagery for the domestic market.

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PC-04366 · Unidentified American publisher
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