"Greetings from Randolph, Mass." linen view card: birch trees and lake

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Title

"Greetings from Randolph, Mass." linen view card: birch trees and lake

Description

This color "linen view card", made of textured paper with high rag content, was part of a "Colourpicture" series featuring different picturesque drawings. This card has an image of several birch and pine trees in front of a lake with several tall hills rising in the background. The subject of the image may have been Great Pond or one of Randolph's other lakes; the hills in the background are likely the Blue Hills. The card bears the number "11704" in the bottom right corner.

Publisher

Colourpicture Publishers, Boston, MA
Digital image: Randolph Historical Commission

Date

ca. 1938-1969

Contributor

Donated by Jay Blotcher

Relation

Collection: Jay Blotcher papers

Identifier

9999.135.a2021.8

Citation

“"Greetings from Randolph, Mass." linen view card: birch trees and lake,” Turner Free Library Digital History Collection, accessed May 7, 2024, https://turnerfreelibrary.omeka.net/items/show/414.