Antique & Vintage Postcards

Regal and fortress-like against a soft pastel sky, the James A. Garfield Memorial in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery rises in Romanesque splendor — its rusticated granite walls, arched windows, ornate arcade, and terracotta-red conical turrets rendered in vivid hand-applied color by German chromolithographers for the American market, circa 1907. Dedicated in 1890, the memorial honors the 20th U.S. President, assassinated in 1881 — one of only four sitting presidents killed in office. Published by A.C. Bosselman & Co. of New York and printed in Germany, this undivided-back-era card (the stamp box instructs "One Cent for United States… Two Cents for Foreign") was never mailed, preserving its pristine surface free of postal wear. A clean, early example of a beloved Cleveland landmark that draws steady collector interest from both presidential and Ohio topographic collectors.