Antique & Vintage Postcards

On a golden summer afternoon in 1920, Buffalo's Humboldt Park — one of Frederick Law Olmsted's great urban green spaces — teems with Edwardian-dressed families, perambulators, bicycles, and an early automobile edging past the glass conservatory, all framing an elaborate carpet-bedding display of yellow and blue flowers that anchors the foreground like a jewel. This hand-coloured card, postmarked Buffalo 25 June 1920, was sent to a woman named Dora at 470 S. Franklin Street in Hanover, Pennsylvania, with a message in sloping cursive that mentions Buffalo and best wishes. The 1-cent Benjamin Franklin green stamp — a classic of the era — ties it firmly to the early Jazz Age, and the Olmsted park subject gives it genuine local history appeal for Buffalo and landscape architecture collectors alike.