Postcard

Title:

Fountain Square, looking North, Contoocook, N. H.

Date:

1909-1912

Dimensions:

Print Size: 3.5" x 5.5"

Description:

Postcard. Paper. Hand-tinted photo showing buildings around Fountain Square, fountain and large tree in center, covered highway bridge to left background. Printed text in blue: "Fountain Square, looking North, Contoocook, N. H." Divided back with black printed text: "POST CARD". Logo of the American New Company of New York (shamrock with letters "A", "N" and "C" in leaves, "N. Y." on either side of stem, semi-circle over shamrock with "OCTOCHROME" over circle and "LEIPZIG BERLIN DRESDEN underneath shamrock). Rectangle with postage stamp directions in upper right. Printed text along left edge: "No. D8706 Made in Germany".

Provenance:

Donors are the children of Dorothy Lightfoot, whose assembled this collection of postcards. Collection assembled ca. 1970s.

Subjects:

Postal cards, Postcards, Photographic postcards, Landscape photographs, Buildings, Villages, Communication, Postal service, Correspondence, Writing, Postal service rates, Postal stationery, Fountains, Covered bridges

People:

Lightfoot, Dorothy Baldwin

Place of Origin:

New York/Germany

Item Number:

2010.0005.01.07

Accession Number:

2010.0005

Type of Material:

Photographs

Copyright Statement:

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Participating Organization:

Hopkinton Historical Society