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Stephen Collins Foster, My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, Kentucky

Subjects
InteriorsPortraits
Card type
Lithograph
Date
c. 1907 (Golden Age)
Front of Stephen Collins Foster, My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, Kentucky, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
Front
Back of Stephen Collins Foster, My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, Kentucky, c. 1907 lithograph postcard
Back

About this subject

Color reproduction of an oil painting showing a dark-haired man in a dark suit and bow tie, seated with his head resting on his right hand and a pen and paper in his left, beside the keyboard of a piano or organ. The background is a plain mottled brown wall with a carved wooden chair back at right.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

June 22, 1970

PublisherDurham Printing & Offset Co.
PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER in the parlor of My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, Kentucky Color courtesy Kentucky Tourist Travel Commission Pub. by Durham Printing & Offset Co., Box 388, Harlan, Ky. 40831 Post Card PLACE STAMP HERE SP-OKH-15 25417-C MADE BY DEXTER PRESS, INC. WEST NYACK, NEW YORK
Addressed to

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Postcard record

ConditionGood
Place mentionedMy Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, KY
Place mentionedWest Nyack, NY
PublisherDurham Printing & Offset Co., Harlan, KY
NotesNo printed text on the front; image is a reproduction of a painting with visible canvas/print texture and a light surface scratch at right. No border or divided-back cues visible on this side. No postmark. Divided-back glossy chrome-era card; handwritten date June 22, 1970 at top left; no stamp and no address written. Light surface wear, otherwise clean.

Cite this card

Stephen Collins Foster, My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown, Kentucky, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/stephen-collins-foster-my-old-kentucky-home-bardstown-kentuc. Accessed October 5, 2026.