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Chautauqua Assembly Dock, Chautauqua, NY, 1907

Subjects
Crowds & GatheringsNew Year'sSteamboats & RiverboatsWaterfronts & Harbors
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Chautauqua Assembly Dock, Chautauqua, NY, 1907, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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Back of Chautauqua Assembly Dock, Chautauqua, NY, 1907, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A crowd stands on the long dock at Chautauqua Assembly, with the large wooden assembly building and its open verandas at left. A multi-deck steamboat is moored at right, one of the lake steamers that brought visitors to the summer assembly on Chautauqua Lake. The Chautauqua Institution, founded in the 1870s, was a center for education and religious lectures, and its waterfront was a busy arrival point in season. Rosa's New Year's note to Mrs. E. M. Richardson in Durbin, West Virginia, mentions nursing sick family members and thanks her for a calendar. The message is a holiday greeting between friends in Warm Springs, Virginia, and Durbin, West Virginia.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Post-card rec'd. Thanks I hope that you may spend a happy new-year, I have been nursing the sick M. & A. have been real ill. Tell Mr Ed. that Miss Fridge thinks that he is more handsome than I am. lots of love to you all & Miss Annie yours, Rosa Thanks for pretty Calendar

PublisherH.C. Leighton Co.
Chautauqua Assembly Dock, N.Y.
PostmarkedWarm Springs, VA, January 3, 1907, 17:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Mrs E.M. Richardson

Durbin, WV

Postcard record

Postmarked, Warm Springs, VA
PublisherH.C. Leighton Co.
ConditionFair
Place addressedDurbin, WV
Place depictedChautauqua Assembly Dock, Chautauqua, NY
PublisherH.C. Leighton Co., Portland, ME
receivedDurbin, WV
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930, perforated on all sides
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1907, perforated on all sides
NotesHandwritten message on front; undivided-back era; printed publisher line: H.C. Leighton Co., Portland, Me., manufacturers of postal cards, made in Germany, No. 1889. Postmark: WARM SPRINGS, VA. JAN 3 5 PM 1907. Received mark: DURBIN, W. VA. JAN 4 1 PM 1907 REG'D. Undivided back ('This side is for the address.'). 1c Franklin stamp. Light toning/soiling.

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Chautauqua Assembly Dock, Chautauqua, NY, 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/chautauqua-assembly-dock-chautauqua-ny-1907. Accessed November 2, 2026.