1901 Main Street Skerries Dublin Ireland Vintage Postcard, UDB

About This Vintage Postcard

This evocative colorized lithograph captures a quiet moment on Main Street in the seaside village of Skerries, County Dublin. The scene is dominated by the distinctive belfry of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, a local landmark built from Milverton limestone. This belfry originally served an earlier church building from 1823 before being incorporated into the present-day church grounds. The postcard provides a rare look at the village's unpaved streets and traditional stone cottages at the turn of the century, standing as a peaceful record of North Dublin's coastal history before the age of the automobile.

Details

Era: Undivided Back (c. 1901–1907)
City: Skerries
State or Region: County Dublin
Country: Ireland
Topic: Main Street, St. Patrick's Church, North Dublin Coast, Irish Village Life, Belfry Architecture
Condition: Circulated
Postage: None (Sent under cover or hand-delivered)
Address Side: undivided back
Orientation: Horizontal (Landscape)
Artist / Photographer: Unknown
Publisher: F. von Bardeleben (New York & Germany)
Printer: Printed in Germany
Print Type: Colorized Lithograph

Additional Information

The "undivided back" and the explicit instruction "This side exclusively for the Address" confirm this card was manufactured before the 1907 postal regulation changes. It is part of the "U.S. Series 145/5" published by F. von Bardeleben, a firm that specialized in high-quality German-printed views for the American and international markets. The handwritten note on the back from "Mary Held" identifies the sender as being from Granite Falls, Washington, sending this token of Irish scenery to Miss Maggie Scharenbroch in Kiel, Wisconsin. St. Patrick is closely tied to Skerries lore; he is said to have landed on a nearby island while on his mission to convert Ireland.

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