Family group at log cabin, Owls Head, ME, 1907

About this postcard

Four adults and a baby pose outside a rough log cabin. The men sit in suits and wide-brimmed hats, one holding the infant, while two women in long dresses stand behind them. The message places the scene at a camp: the sender says it was "taken up to Camp" and asks whether the recipient recognizes "them Rodwines," adding that the photograph is good of everyone but Ada and the writer. The writer also promises better prints of Curley once the films are developed. Owls Head is a small coastal town on Penobscot Bay in Maine, and informal group portraits like this one were a common way for families at a distance to share likenesses and news.