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Hollenbeck Park lake, Los Angeles, CA, 1909

Subjects
Lakes & PondsPublic Parks & Commons
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1909 (Golden Age)
Front of Hollenbeck Park lake, Los Angeles, CA, 1909, c. 1909 lithograph postcard
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Back of Hollenbeck Park lake, Los Angeles, CA, 1909, c. 1909 lithograph postcard
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About this postcard

A view across the lake in Hollenbeck Park, Los Angeles, with a curving flower-lined walk along the near shore, palms and other ornamental trees, and a small island in the distance. Two white waterfowl float on the water. The park was laid out in the 1890s on land donated by the Hollenbeck family in Boyle Heights, and its lake and landscaped grounds became a popular pleasure ground for early-20th-century Los Angeles. The message is a short Thanksgiving note declining a dinner invitation, the kind of everyday correspondence that postcards made cheap and quick.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Los Angeles Cal Nov 24 '09 Dear Clara I received the Thanksgiving Postal and with thanks for your kindly thought of me. I should like accepting of your invitation to dinner, that is impossible. I hope you will have an enjoyable day. I shall be [illegible] to answer [illegible] letter [illegible] with [illegible] remember me. Mrs. C.B.C.

PublisherNewman Post Card Co.
Hollenbeck Park, Los Angeles, Cal. --- POST CARD. Write message here. Pub. by Newman Post Card Co., Los Angeles, Cal. Made in Germany.
PostmarkedLOS ANGELES, November 6, 1909, 18:00
Stamp
Addressed to
Mrs Clara Phelps

Brooklyn, NY

Postcard record

Postmarked, LOS ANGELES
PublisherNewman Post Card Co.
ConditionFair
Place addressedMrs Clara Phelps, Brooklyn, NY
Place depictedHollenbeck Park, Los Angeles, CA
Stamp1c George Washington, green, perforated on all sides
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides
NotesColor lithograph with a grainy, stippled sky; no white border. Paper loss and wear at the top-left and bottom-right corners and along the edges. Postmark: LOS ANGELES NOV 6 PM 1909. Divided-back private post card with green "POST CARD." heading and "Write message here." instruction; Newman Post Card Co. imprint, Made in Germany. Pen message; edges worn and soiled.

Cite this card

Hollenbeck Park lake, Los Angeles, CA, 1909, postcard, c. 1909. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/hollenbeck-park-lake-los-angeles-ca-1909. Accessed November 2, 2026.