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Main Street, Lee, Massachusetts, circa 1908

Card type
Printed photo

About this postcard

Looking down Main Street in Lee, Massachusetts, with commercial blocks lining both sides: a mansard-roofed wooden building with a second-story porch on the left and a brick block with a tall corner tower on the right, horse-drawn carriages in the unpaved roadway, and trolley wires and poles overhead. Lee, in Berkshire County, was a paper-mill town, and this view captures its turn-of-the-century downtown as photographed for the Rotograph Company's postcard line.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

from Papa Dec 26

PostmarkedFitchburg, MA
Stamp
Addressed to
Charlotte S. Barrett

Amesbury, MA

Postcard record

PostmarkedFitchburg, MA
PublisherThe Rotograph Co.
SeriesA 5257
ConditionGood
Place addressedCharlotte S. Barrett, Amesbury, MA
Place depictedLee, MA
PublisherThe Rotograph Co., New York, NY
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902
NotesLight border along the bottom edge; handwritten inscription in the lower right corner; slight surface wear and speckling. Postmark: FITCHBURG MASS 8-30A 1906 (month digit partly obscured by the red POST CARD overprint). Undivided back with "This side for the Address." only; Rotograph Co. imprint printed in Germany; light edge/corner wear and a few foxing spots.

Cite this card

Main Street, Lee, Massachusetts, circa 1908, postcard, c. 1902. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/main-street-lee-massachusetts-circa-1908. Accessed October 24, 2026.