A long wooden footbridge on pilings crosses the still water of a sheltered cove, with a small white rowboat moored beneath it and a few skiffs and a sailboat anchored offshore. Wooden wharves and a cluster of shingled and clapboard summer cottages with red roofs sit among the pines along the far shore, beneath a pale green sky washed with pink at the horizon. Christmas Cove is a small harbor village on the Pemaquid peninsula in Bristol, Maine, long popular as a summer resort and yachting anchorage.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pencil
Wish you was here to go bathing
today. The Girls
PostmarkedChristmas Cove, ME, August 24, 1909, 11:00
White margin at bottom carrying the printed caption; chromolithograph printed in Germany. Handwritten pencil message across the lower right of the picture area. Light edge and corner wear.
Postmark: CHRISTMAS AUG 24 11 AM 1909 (a second, fainter mark reads AUG 25 7-AM). Undivided back with printed "This Side is for the Address"; German-printed litho card for G. W. Morris, Portland, Me.; light soiling and a few foxing spots, small creases at corners.
Cite this card
Footbridge and waterfront, Christmas Cove, Maine, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1902. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/footbridge-and-waterfront-christmas-cove-maine-circa-1910. Accessed October 24, 2026.
