The view looks across the broad Eastern Wide Waters near Rochester, with a low bridge or embankment crossing the water and scattered houses and trees along the far shore. Farm fields and a curving road fill the foreground. The Eastern Wide Waters was the widened section of the Erie Canal east of the city, a broad channel that made room for canal boats and gave the outskirts an open, watery landscape in the early twentieth century.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Dear Emily:
your letter received -
This card will have to answer
for a few days as we leave to-morrow
for a few days visit in Manning
about five miles from Holley. I
arrived last Thursday. Just
after a days visit in Syracuse. [illegible]
glad you are better. Love
from [illegible] and the children also
Mary. [illegible] when you write.
Lovingly Lucile
Thin white border; printed number "2411" in red at lower left; light corner wear and a small stain at upper right.
Postmark: HOLLEY N.Y. NOV 8 13 P. Divided-back private postcard ("This Space For Writing Messages" / "This side for the Address only"); 1¢ green Franklin stamp; white border; color litho/halftone texture; light edge and corner wear.
Cite this card
Eastern Wide Waters, Rochester, NY, 1913, postcard, c. 1913. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/eastern-wide-waters-rochester-ny-1913. Accessed November 2, 2026.
