Tall bald cypress trees draped with Spanish moss rise from a still pond edged with flowering shrubs, their trunks reflected in the water beneath a pale sunset sky. The card's own caption calls them "Giant Cypress Trees, Monarchs of Florida's Forests in the Sunshine State." Florida's bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) commonly grows in swamps and along lake margins, hung with the epiphytic Spanish moss that gives such scenes their characteristic gray-green drapery.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Jan. 23, 1953
Dear [illegible],
[illegible] having a fine time [illegible]
[illegible] the jungle [illegible] we [illegible] to see [illegible]
[illegible] letter [illegible] this [illegible]
Indian Rocks Beach
Fla.
[illegible]
PostmarkedINDIAN ROCKS BEACH, FL, January 24, 1953, 15:30
Linen-textured stock with visible crosshatch weave; narrow white border at edges; number G601 printed at lower left of caption.
Postmark: INDIAN ROCKS BEACH FLA. JAN 24 1953 3:30 PM. Divided-back linen card with white border; card toned with a few brown stains; message written sideways in blue ink, largely illegible.
Cite this card
Giant cypress trees, Florida, 1953, postcard, c. 1953. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/giant-cypress-trees-florida-1953. Accessed November 2, 2026.
