Lafayette Place, Franconia Notch, White Mountains, NH, circa 1901

Subjects: Forests & Trees Mountains & Hills
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1901 (Early)

Back of Lafayette Place, Franconia Notch, White Mountains, NH, circa 1901, c. 1901 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

A meadow and low brush fill the foreground, backed by a dense band of forest, with a rocky, partly wooded slope rising at left and a dark evergreen standing at right; blue peaks close the valley under a pale sky. The caption names the view as Lafayette Place in Franconia Notch, the mountain pass between the Franconia and Kinsman ranges in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Around 1900 the notch was a summer resort destination, and the Profile House hotel at Lafayette Place put up guests who came to see the Old Man of the Mountain, the rock profile above the notch that stood until it fell in 2003.

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Publisher	Flume Reservation
Condition	Very good
Place depicted	Franconia Notch, Franconia, NH
Notes	White border around the image; stippled color printing typical of mid-century lithographed view cards. No postmark. Undivided back ("THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY"); printer origin line in boxed border, "PRINTED IN SAXONY," printed upside down; distributor imprint "PUB. AND SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY FLUME RESERVATION IN FRANCONIA NOTCH, N. H." running down the right edge — c. 1900–1901 private mailing card era; white border on front; unused, no writing or damage beyond light toning.

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Lafayette Place, Franconia Notch, White Mountains, NH, circa 1901, postcard, c. 1901. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/lafayette-place-franconia-notch-white-mountains-nh-circa-190. Accessed November 2, 2026.