A quiet Florida river winds between banks of dense green and golden foliage, with a fallen palm trunk slanting across the foreground and a palmetto clump at the water's edge. The card's own caption calls it simply "A River Scene in the Sunshine State, Florida," a generic view of the kind sold to mid-century tourists rather than a named waterway. Such linen-finish views celebrated Florida's subtropical vegetation and slow spring-fed rivers, a landscape promoted heavily in the 1930s and 1940s.
Linen-textured stock with visible crosshatch weave; narrow white border; caption printed in upper left.
No postmark (unmailed, no stamp). Divided-back linen-texture card with 'POST CARD' heading, 'THIS SPACE FOR WRITING MESSAGES', 'PLACE STAMP HERE' box, publisher imprint Hartman Card Co., Pinellas Park, FL, and card no. E-4405. Sender identification and 'Jan 1945' written in the message space; no correspondence text.
Cite this card
River scene in the Sunshine State, Florida, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/river-scene-in-the-sunshine-state-florida-circa-1940. Accessed October 24, 2026.
