Antique & Vintage Postcards

A sun-soaked summer of '63 comes alive in this cheerful chrome-era postcard: a weathered shingle-sided smock windmill rises against a brilliant cerulean sky, its latticed sails casting dramatic shadows across a lush green lawn edged with blooming pink roses — the quintessential Cape Cod scene. The card depicts the Eastham Windmill, the oldest surviving windmill on Cape Cod, built c. 1680 and relocated to its current home across from Eastham Town Hall. LouAnn dashed off a breezy, sunburned report to her grandmother Ellen: "Well so far our vacation has been swell. Everyone is burned to a crisp." A perfectly evocative time capsule of mid-century New England family travel.