Looking south on Main St., Dayton, OH, 1907
- Card type
- Printed photo
About this postcard
Looking south down Main Street in Dayton, Ohio, the street is lined with a tall rusticated stone office block on the left, a yellow-tinted high-rise beyond it, and lower commercial buildings with awnings and signs on the right. Horse-drawn wagons and pedestrians in early-1900s dress share the roadway with trolley tracks and overhead wires. A sign for Harvey's S2S & S Tiger Hat is visible on the right-hand block. Dayton was then a manufacturing and patent-medicine center, and Main Street served as its main commercial artery before the 1913 flood and later suburban growth reshaped downtown.
Postcard Details
Amesbury, MA
Postcard record
| Postmarked | , Dayton, OH |
|---|---|
| Publisher | J. B. Meiler & Son |
| Series | No...29 931 |
| Condition | Good |
| Place addressed | Blanchette Barnett, Amesbury, MA |
| Place depicted | Dayton, OH |
| received | Amesbury, MA |
| Stamp | 1c Benjamin Franklin, green, perforated on all sides |
| Stamp | 1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1900 |
| Notes | Thin white border; light staining at top right corner; halftone grain and colorizing typical of early divided-back era cards. Postmark: DAYTON, O. DEC 6 6:30 PM 1907 (duplex cancel with wavy killer bars); receiving mark: AMESBURY, MASS. DEC 8 1907. Divided-back card, printed in Germany for a Dayton, Ohio publisher; light edge/corner wear and slight soiling, otherwise clean. |
Cite this card
Looking south on Main St., Dayton, OH, 1907, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/looking-south-on-main-st-dayton-oh-1907. Accessed November 2, 2026.