Front caption reads" "Port Byron, N.Y. Lock on Erie Canal [top of card]. Photo of Port Byron Lock on Erie Canal. The photo appears to be taken from the embankment, surveying one side of the lock and lock houses. On the right side of the lock, trees can be seen in the distance. On the left of the lock, a pathway leads up to the top of the lock. Two men can be seen in the far distance outside one of the lock houses.
Postal data: posted, postmarked [striped oval postmark] [partial circle postmark], stamp; Postcard type: divided back (COMMUNICATIONS; ADDRESS); Logo (POST CARD); Printing information: card number (8902); Written message: (June 5 - 08. Dear Mother, Just wrote L. & send P. a postal like this. Am baking & ironing. Will clean pantry if I get to it Joe gone to P.B. with hay. Miss H is asleep got Herve on Postal O.K. where was he? Lovingly B.C.); Addressee: (Mrs Sarah Faatz, Auburn, N.Y. R.D.F.).
Digitized by Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College (CUNY). Front Image Digitization Team: GSLIS 790, Digital Imaging Fall 2008: Wendy Chu, Margaret Lam. Back Image Digitization Team: GSLIS 790, Digital Imaging Fall 2008: Wendy Chu, Margaret Lam
Extent
3.5 in. x 5.5 in.
Publishing Note
William Blake, Port Byron, N.Y. Printed in Germany [indicated on back only]
Related Resource
Waterways Post Card Collection of Thomas T. Surprenant: Erie Canal.