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Entrance to Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, NY, 1907

Subject
Armories
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Entrance to Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, NY, 1907, Miss Nina Radebaugh, MA, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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Back of Entrance to Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, NY, 1907, Miss Nina Radebaugh, MA, USA, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A tree-lined drive leads from a stone and iron gateway with ball-topped piers toward a large red-brick building at the Watervliet Arsenal. Established in 1813 on the west bank of the Hudson River just north of Troy, the arsenal is the oldest continuously operating U.S. Army arsenal and long served as the Army's principal manufacturer of cannon and heavy ordnance. The brick building at the end of the drive is part of the arsenal's shop and storehouse complex.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear little Nina Guess you will think I am not a good one, but it seems so hard for one to sit down & write; I am so busy all the time. My Mother is in Schenectady this week with my brother. We are having nice weather here now. Love to all Uncle Phillips

PublisherSouvenir Post Card Co.
1547 ENTRANCE TO WATERVLIET ARSENAL, WATERVLIET, N.Y. --- Post Card This space may be used for Correspondence The Address only to be Written Here Souvenir Post Card Co., New York Printed in Germany.
PostmarkedTroy, NY, December 8, 1907, 18:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Miss Nina Radebaugh

Jumbo Falls, MA

Postcard record

Postmarked, Troy, NY
PublisherSouvenir Post Card Co.
Series1547
ConditionGood
Place addressedMiss Nina Radebaugh, Jumbo Falls, MA
PublisherSouvenir Post Card Co., New York, NY
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated vertical sides only
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1907, perforated on all sides
NotesThin white border around the image; card number 1547 printed at lower left; light corner and edge wear. Postmark: TROY N.Y. DEC 8 6-PM 1907 (with machine flag cancel). Divided-back green "Post Card" stock printed in Germany; colored litho view card, light edge/corner wear and slight soiling.

Cite this card

Entrance to Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, NY, 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/entrance-to-watervliet-arsenal-watervliet-ny-1907. Accessed November 2, 2026.