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Postcard 1910s Victorian House Residence Real Photo RPPC Unidentified
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RPPC · 1912

Postcard 1910s Victorian House Residence Real Photo RPPC Unidentified

Unknown, USA1912RPPCFair-Good

A stately late-Victorian Queen Anne residence commands its tree-lined street in this evocative real-photo postcard, its bay window, steep gabled dormers, decorative eave trim, wrap-around porch with striped awning, and twin chimneys composing a textbook image of prosperous turn-of-the-century American domestic architecture. The sepia tones and linen-texture paper stock of the reverse — with its typewriter-style "POST CARD / CORRESPONDENCE HERE / NAME AND ADDRESS HERE" printing and the distinctive geometric "PLACE STAMP HERE" box — point to a c. 1907–1918 production date, squarely in the golden age of American postcard collecting. The subject is unidentified, possibly a boarding house, private residence, or small inn; no message or address was ever written. Cards like this one capture the aspirational middle-class streetscape of Edwardian America with an intimacy that printed lithographs rarely achieved.

$10.95
Fair-Good
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PC-05213 · Unknown
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