Looking north from Stevens Point over Lake Winnipesaukee at Alton Bay. A railed bridge or causeway crosses the foreground, with a building at the left and wooded shoreline on the right. Alton Bay sits at the southern tip of Lake Winnipesaukee and had long been a summer resort area in New Hampshire's Lakes Region. The card's message is a summer social note about a bridge game and picnic supper, a small glimpse of vacation life around the lake.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
It's lovely up here.
June 7, 1940
Dear Sarah: - Sorry I
can't be in two places
at once; as I'd loved to
have been home for Clem's
Will you please play in my
place at Bridge? Tues: eve
it's a picnic supper at
Mrs Wallaces: & I doubt
much if I'm home for another
play: so please take my place
& when "blow out" comes you ca
Full-bleed halftone print; handwritten message in sky; pencil annotation "our camp" on sky, written diagonally; printed caption at bottom ("Looking North from Stevens Point / Lake Winnipesaukee, Alton Bay, N. H."); handwritten number 4636 at lower right; handwritten filing numbers 112/2 at top.
Postmark: ALTON BAY, N.H. JUN 5 1940. Divided-back Dexter Press "Silvercraft" card, message dated June 7, 1940; 1c green Washington stamp; light wear, small tear at bottom center.
Cite this card
Looking north from Stevens Point, Lake Winnipesaukee, NH, 1940, postcard, c. 1940. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/looking-north-from-stevens-point-lake-winnipesaukee-nh-1940. Accessed November 2, 2026.
