A shallow creek ripples over rocks through a wooded valley, with autumn-tinted shrubs and grasses along the banks and dense trees rising behind.
Long Pine Creek runs through the sandhills of north-central Nebraska near the town of Long Pine, and its cold, spring-fed water has long made it one of the state's few trout streams. The sender used the back for a few lines home to David City, the sort of brief note that carried everyday news before telephones reached most farm households.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Dear Josephine will write a few lines to let you know that we are all well and hope this finds you the same
Grainy chromolithographic texture; white printed caption along lower edge; slight edge wear at corners.
Postmark: LONG PINE NEB. NOV 1 8 PM 1909. Divided-back card printed in Germany for a Norfolk, Nebr. publisher; message written sideways in pen; light soiling, ink smudges, and cancellation marks over the stamp.
Cite this card
Long Pine Creek, Western Nebraska, 1909, postcard, c. 1909. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/long-pine-creek-western-nebraska-1909. Accessed November 2, 2026.
