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Comic line of patients at the Bath House, Clifton Springs, NY, 1908

Subjects
Comics & HumorHospitals & Sanatoria
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1908 (Golden Age)
Front of Comic line of patients at the Bath House, Clifton Springs, NY, 1908, c. 1908 lithograph postcard
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Back of Comic line of patients at the Bath House, Clifton Springs, NY, 1908, c. 1908 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A humorous color lithograph shows a long queue of men and women in red and yellow outfits, one pushed in a wheeled chair, shuffling toward a red brick building with a yellow banner reading "BATH HOUSE"; the caption promises "Everybody is cured at Clifton Springs, N. Y." Clifton Springs, in Ontario County, New York, was a well-known 19th- and early-20th-century health resort built around the Clifton Springs Sanitarium and its mineral-water baths, which drew invalids seeking cures. The card pokes gentle fun at the crowds of hopeful patients arriving for treatment.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Clifton Springs July 13 1908 Dear Mrs Hermans This is [illegible] are living here Misery loves Company so when you get sick you will know come Your friend [illegible] B. Steen the [illegible] [illegible] the [illegible] [illegible] and the [illegible] the [illegible]

PublisherH. W. Longstaff & Co.
Everybody is cured at Clifton Springs, N. Y. BATH HOUSE COPYRIGHTED 1907 BY H. W. LONGSTAFF & CO.
PostmarkedClifton Spa, NY, July 14, 1908, 19:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Mrs Hermans

8th St Bloomsburg, PA

Postcard record

Postmarked, Clifton Spa, NY
PublisherH. W. Longstaff & Co.
ConditionGood
Place addressedMrs Hermans, 8th St, Bloomsburg, PA
Place depictedClifton Springs, NY
receivedBloomsburg, PA
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated vertical sides only
NotesHandwritten pencil message written across the picture side; light soiling and edge wear; no white border. Postmark: CLIFTON SPA N.Y. JUL 14 7 PM (1908 per message dated July 13 1908); received mark: BLOOMSBURG, PA. JUL 1908. Undivided back ("THIS SIDE FOR ADDRESS ONLY"), 1907 copyright, white-bordered coarse matte card; message written sideways in pencil along left edge; light soiling and corner wear.

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Comic line of patients at the Bath House, Clifton Springs, NY, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/comic-line-of-patients-at-the-bath-house-clifton-springs-ny. Accessed November 2, 2026.