This is the youngest of the whole dam family Lee Jr. Mountain view. More to follow.
Here's the back of the card.
And here's Hillside House near Lake George in the Adirondacks. If it's still standing, I can't find any record of it.
The card was cut down in size, but why? Then, I noticed that the edge was coming up on one corner of the front. Look what's underneath! looks like the Brooklyn Bridge, doesn't it?
Thanks to Linda Ripley Smith for her helpful comments on this post and on the follow-up post, which you can see here.
Wonderful, an home-made postcard. I used to do that kind of thing (pasting images on top of other postcards) in my youth. Maybe someone will find one in years to come and write a blog post about it.
ReplyDeleteHow fascinating, sometimes tatty postcards and photos do have something special about them. Was Hillside House a family home or a boarding house, it looks quite large.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to say the boy with the chickens is delightful!
ReplyDeleteAdventures in forensic deltiology. Cool! :)
ReplyDeleteThat boy running with the chickens takes me back to a scene in my childhood.
ReplyDeleteWhat treasures those are! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSuch awesome cards! I would have picked up cards like that too. Even in that condition. I love cards that have a little character. And the second one is so awesome. To think someone in 1911 thought to paste their own picture to the postcard. They definitely paved the way.
ReplyDeleteDo you think the picture over the old postcard was their way of recycling???? If so, that's pretty savvy!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that first card was the inspiration for 'The Birds'!
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ReplyDeleteI think this was similar to a bed and breakfast, but I'm not sure.
True, its a little intriguing. When I find postcards like these, I can't help but think of its history and find out who it was for. You can clearly see through them, how these people live their lives before.
ReplyDeleteI know what inspired you to post those rough cards.... it was all the trashed ones that I post! (heh heh) The boy with chickens is great (looks like Spanky from Our Gang!), and the one with an image over an image is intriguing. I wonder what that was about? I used to peel back the cover on Beatles albums, but it never occurred to me to do it with postcards!
ReplyDeleteWow, that is neat about the postcard underneath. I love stuff like that. I especially love years of old wallpapers under wallpaper. If I had a house I think I would leave them up, half torn off just so I could look at all the layers.
ReplyDeleteMark, you haven't posted any trashed ones recently. You're so right about the boy looking like Spanky. We just finished watching 50 episodes of Our Gang.
ReplyDeletePonyBoy,
I'm so glad you said this about the wallpaper. I removed five layers from some rooms in my house. It was like traveling back in time...and I did save some of the bigger pieces.
That's definitely a New York bridge postcard. I've got several of those postcards from that area of angle/perspective. That's so neat how they basically reused the postcard for their photo. Very interesting find. Great post all around!
ReplyDeleteYou are not going to believe this but the "Hillside House" was actually owned by a B.P.Ripley! He was my grandfather--in fact I lived in the same house after it was renovated after I was born from 1952-1958! My grandfather's name was quite unusual--Benajah Perry Ripley and he was Sr. The Hillside House served as a resort in the mid 1900's. It was very popular due to it's close vicinity to Lake Champlain (just down the hill behind the house). The family would arrange fishing, camping, and hunting expeditions.They also had a camp at Pine Lake
ReplyDeleteMy great-grandparents actually ran the resort in the begining. It was also a small dairy farm. My grandfather was born in 1885 so he was running it at this time. He was also, the Justice of the Peace and the Town Clerk for the Town of Dresden for years. He wore many hats!
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