Aerial view of Winter Haven, Florida, and its lakes, circa 1940

Subjects: Aerial Views & Panoramas Lakes & Ponds Town & City Views
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1930 (White Border)

Back of Aerial view of Winter Haven, Florida, and its lakes, circa 1940, Mr + Mrs Wm Steele, WI, USA, c. 1930 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

An airplane view looks down on the small central Florida town of Winter Haven, its grid of streets and low buildings set among dense green groves, with several large, irregular lakes ringed by woods spread across the background. The card's own caption names it as an airplane view of Winter Haven, Fla. and some of the numerous lakes. Winter Haven, in Polk County, grew up among a chain of more than fifty named lakes and became a citrus-growing and resort center; the surrounding groves visible here reflect that industry.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Feb 19 - We are at Clearwater for vacation. Our vacation maid which was [illegible] our relative [illegible] maid which was [illegible] from Miami were [illegible] glad to get it as [illegible] here this week and cannot [illegible] the [illegible] on the east week or our [illegible] The Citrus crop are [illegible] still [illegible] with fruit and [illegible] of lands again ready to from [illegible] [illegible] only [illegible] the light in the [illegible] at Citrus district [illegible] to visit them once more before we home. Also [illegible] from [illegible] [illegible] to show us a [illegible] from [illegible] [illegible] that anything [illegible] [illegible]

Addressed to

Mr + Mrs Wm Steele

217 Walnut St, Oconomowoc, WI

Postcard record

Publisher	Curt Teich & Co.
Series	W. H. 3
Condition	Very good
Place addressed	Mr + Mrs Wm Steele, 217 Walnut St, Oconomowoc, WI
Publisher	Curt Teich & Co., Chicago, IL
Stamp	2c John Adams, red
Notes	White border; visible halftone dot screen; publisher-style number 121498-N printed at lower right. Postmark: [illegible] TER. STA [illegible] (date illegible). Curt Teich linen-era card with 2¢ John Adams stamp (1938+). Divided back, white border, linen texture. Light edge wear.

Cite this card

Aerial view of Winter Haven, Florida, and its lakes, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/aerial-view-of-winter-haven-florida-and-its-lakes-circa-1940. Accessed October 24, 2026.