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Gem Terrace Beach, Catawba Island, Ohio, 1937

Subjects
Bathing & Beach ResortsBeaches & CoastlinesSwimming & Bathing
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1937 (Linen)
Front of Gem Terrace Beach, Catawba Island, Ohio, 1937, c. 1937 linen postcard
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Back of Gem Terrace Beach, Catawba Island, Ohio, 1937, c. 1937 linen postcard
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About this postcard

The card shows a crowded summer day at Gem Terrace Beach on Catawba Island, Ohio, with bathers wading and swimming in blue Lake Erie water. Behind the shore are a bath house, a tall observation tower, a dance pavilion, trees, and American flags. Catawba Island is a peninsula in Ottawa County, Ohio, long promoted as a Lake Erie resort area. The bath house, tower, and pavilion reflect the amenities that drew vacationers to the lake in the 1930s.

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PublisherE. B. Ackley
160—Gem Terrace Beach, Showing Bath House, Observation Tower and Dance Pavilion, Catawba Island, in Ohio's Lake Erie Vacationland
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Postcard record

PublisherE. B. Ackley
Series7A-H3168
ConditionVery good
Place depictedCatawba Island, OH
Place depictedLake Erie
PublisherE. B. Ackley, Sandusky, OH
NotesLinen texture; white border; printed card number 160 and Curt Teich production code 7A-H3168. No postmark. Divided-back linen card with white border; Curteich "C.T. Art-Colortone" imprint, card no. 7A-H3168; clean, unwritten.

Cite this card

Gem Terrace Beach, Catawba Island, Ohio, 1937, postcard, c. 1937. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/gem-terrace-beach-catawba-island-ohio-1937. Accessed November 2, 2026.