Entrance to Boulevard, Reading, PA, 1911

Subjects: Residences Street Scenes Town & City Views
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1911 (Golden Age)

Back of Entrance to Boulevard, Reading, PA, 1911, Mrs Harry Mullen, MD, USA, c. 1911 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

A tinted view looking down on the fork where a tree-lined boulevard enters a residential section of Reading, Pennsylvania, with stone gateposts at the drive and large Victorian-era houses with turrets and gables set on the lawns. Wooded hillside fills the foreground and the long ridge of the Reading hills closes the horizon. The card labels the spot simply as the entrance to the boulevard, one of the scenic drives laid out on the hills above the city in the early 1900s.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

Dear Bess, I will have been here three weeks and will leave here [illegible] [illegible] hope [illegible] good. [illegible] Love to all Mamie

PostmarkedReading, PA, July 3, 1911, 13:30

Addressed to

Mrs Harry Mullen

37. Locust. St. Hagerstown, MD

Postcard record

Postmarked	July 3, 1911, 13:30, Reading, PA
Series	61047
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Mrs Harry Mullen, 37. Locust. St., Hagerstown, MD
Stamp	1c George Washington, green, perforated on all sides
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1907, perforated on all sides
Notes	Divided-back private postcard with white border; printed card number 61047 at lower left; colored litho view (front); faint circular stain/abrasion in the sky area; card soiled, worn corners, light edge and corner wear; message in pencil written sideways along the left edge. Postmark: READING, PA. JUL 3 1:30 PM 1911. 1¢ green Franklin adhesive stamp.

Cite this card

Entrance to Boulevard, Reading, PA, 1911, postcard, c. 1911. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/entrance-to-boulevard-reading-pa-1911. Accessed November 2, 2026.