About This Postcard
This antique color tinted postcard features a serene scene of the lake in Wade Park, Cleveland, Ohio. The image shows several people in rowboats on the calm water, with a large decorative fountain spraying in the background. Wade Park was donated to the city in 1882 by Jeptha Wade and eventually became the site of the Cleveland Museum of Art. This card captures the park's early landscape design as a popular destination for leisure and boating at the turn of the century.
Details
Era: Undivided Back (c. 1901-1907)
City: Cleveland
Country: United States
Topic: Wade Park, Cleveland Parks, Boating and Leisure, Ohio Landscapes, Historic Fountains
Condition: Unposted / Uncirculated
Address Side: Undivided Back
Orientation: Horizontal (Landscape)
Artist / Photographer: Not Stated
Publisher: Illustrated Postal Card Co., New York-Leipzig (Series No. 41.-13)
Printer: Likely Leipzig, Germany
Print Type: Tinted Halftone / Lithograph
Additional Information
The card was produced by the Illustrated Postal Card Co., a major American publisher known for its distinctive eagle and shield logo on the back. The vertical text on the left identifies the company's offices in New York and Leipzig, Germany, where much of their high-quality color printing was performed. The address side includes the domestic one-cent and foreign two-cent postage rates. The undivided back layout with the instruction This Side for the Address Only confirms its production before March 1, 1907, when the US Post Office first allowed divided backs for messages.
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