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East Rock, New Haven, Connecticut

Subjects
Monuments & MemorialsMountains & Hills
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1902 (Undivided Back)
Front of East Rock, New Haven, Connecticut, c. 1902 lithograph postcard
Front
Back of East Rock, New Haven, Connecticut, c. 1902 lithograph postcard
Back

About this subject

A tinted view of East Rock, the traprock ridge rising above the New Haven plain, with the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and a small red-roofed structure on its summit. A broad tidal flat and channel of water, edged with marsh and snow-patched ground, fills the foreground.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Am doing your city to-day, helping to chaperone a party of [illegible] high school girls [illegible]

PublisherSouvenir Post Card Co.
PUB. BY SOUVENIR POST CARD CO., N. Y 1106 East Rock, New Haven, Conn. --- Post Card THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS
PostmarkedNew Haven, CT, June 9, 1906, 20:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Clarence G. Miner

New Haven, Conn.

Postcard record

Postmarked, New Haven, CT
Series1106
ConditionFair
Place addressedNew Haven, CT
Place depictedEast Rock, New Haven, CT
PublisherNew York, NY
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930
NotesUndivided-back era card with a handwritten message on the front below the picture; light surface wear, staining and edge scuffing. Postmark: NEW HAVEN CONN. JUN 9 8-PM 1906. Undivided back ('THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS'); 1c green Franklin stamp; light toning and edge wear.

Cite this card

East Rock, New Haven, Connecticut, postcard, c. 1902. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/east-rock-new-haven-connecticut. Accessed October 5, 2026.