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Postcard 1907 Dalton Massachusetts Willows Willowbrook Park Scenic Unused
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Pre-linen · 1908

Postcard 1907 Dalton Massachusetts Willows Willowbrook Park Scenic Unused

Dalton, Massachusetts, USA1908Pre-linenFair-Good

Weeping willows trail their fingers into a glassy millpond as warm autumn color touches the canopy above — this richly chromolithographed view of Willowbrook in Dalton, Massachusetts evokes the quiet Berkshire leisure of a paper-mill town on a Sunday afternoon, the rope fence along the water's edge and a distant park bench the only signs of human presence. Willowbrook was a beloved local beauty spot in Dalton, a town whose prosperity came from Crane & Co.'s currency paper mills, and views like this were sold to mill workers and summer visitors alike as tokens of civic pride. Printed in Frankfurt, Germany by Hugh C. Leighton Co. of Portland, Maine — one of the most prolific American postcard publishers of the Edwardian era — this unused card retains vivid color and shows the classic "divided back / one cent domestic" format that places it squarely in the 1907–1915 window.

$10.95
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PC-05392 · Hugh C. Leighton Co., Portland, Maine
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