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Crescent Street in winter

Card type
Real photo

About this subject

A sepia real-photo view down a snowbound residential street, with a huge plowed snowbank filling the left foreground and a rutted, slushy roadway running into the distance. Bare winter trees line both sides, with frame houses on the right and larger brick buildings further down the street.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

Big snow storm February 1920

Addressed to

Upper end of Crescent St, Waltham, Mass.

Postcard record

ConditionVery good
Place addressedUpper end of Crescent St, Waltham, MA
Place depictedCrescent Street, Waltham, MA
NotesWhite border; sepia-toned real photo print. Handwritten caption in white ink along the lower right of the image: "Crescent St Foter 154" (not printed). Light edge and corner wear. Postmark: none visible. Divided-back card, no stamp present. Handwritten note runs sideways along the left edge; address block written in the address half. Sepia real-photo print with white border.

Cite this card

Crescent Street in winter, postcard, c. 1915. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/crescent-street-in-winter. Accessed October 5, 2026.