Anacortes, WA with Mount Baker in distance, 1944

About this postcard

Sepia aerial view of Anacortes on Fidalgo Island, the town spread along its waterfront and harbor with mill and cannery buildings at the shore, and the snow-covered cone of Mount Baker faint on the horizon. In the 1940s Anacortes was a small fishing and lumber port on Puget Sound, its fleet and mills tied to the water that surrounds it. The card was mailed in May 1944 by a motor machinist's mate stationed at the naval air station on Whidbey Island, across the water, to a friend in Leechburg, Pennsylvania. He reports that his wife and baby are doing fine and passes along hellos from Palmina to the folks and the gang. It traveled without a stamp under the free mail privilege for service members.