Ocean Park, Cottage City, Mass., circa 1905
- Card type
- Lithograph
- Date
- c. 1905 (Early)
About this postcard
A broad lawn of Ocean Park in Cottage City (today Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard) is dotted with strolling and seated visitors. An open bandstand or gazebo stands at left, with a shingled chapel-like building beyond it, and a horse-drawn carriage with a fringed canopy sits in the foreground. At the right a side-wheel steamer lies at a long pier on the sound, with sailboats and a crowd of figures along the waterfront. Cottage City was laid out in the 1860s and 1870s as a Methodist camp-meeting resort, and its Ocean Park and piers made it a popular summer destination served by Vineyard Sound steamers.
Postcard Details
No address detected
Postcard record
| Publisher | The Metropolitan News Co. |
|---|---|
| Series | No. 6881. |
| Condition | Very good |
| Place depicted | Ocean Park, Cottage City, MA |
| Publisher | The Metropolitan News Co., Boston, MA |
| Notes | White border along the bottom carrying the printed caption in red; undivided-back era lithograph with a grainy, stippled color surface. No postmark, address, or message — unused back. Undivided back with "THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS." and a stamp box reading DOMESTIC ONE CENT / FOREIGN TWO CENTS; red litho imprint of The Metropolitan News Co., Boston, Mass., Manufacturers of Souvenir Postal Cards, Printed in Germany; series No. 6881. Front shows a white border and a colored halftone view of Ocean Park, Cottage City, Mass. |
Cite this card
Ocean Park, Cottage City, Mass., circa 1905, postcard, c. 1905. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/ocean-park-cottage-city-mass-circa-1905. Accessed November 2, 2026.