A quiet village street in Deer Isle, Maine, seen from the road: a tall clapboard store or boarding house with a corner sign and a utility pole on the left, white and shingled houses with steep gables on the right, and a horse-drawn wagon standing in the distance near a grove of trees. Deer Isle is a Penobscot Bay island community long known for its granite quarries, fishing and, later, summer artists' colonies. The view captures the unpaved main road of the village in the early 20th century.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Though this is written a day later, guess you will get it
as soon as mamma gets her letter — Uncle Lawrence.
Undivided-back era card; handwritten message runs across the bottom of the picture. Slightly textured, tinted litho stock with a faint white margin at the edges.
Postmark: DEER ISLE ME AUG 11 1906 10 AM (also AMESBURY MASS AUG 13 7-AM 1906 receiving mark). Litho-Chrome (Leipzig/Berlin/Dresden) imprint, undivided back, white border, 1c Franklin stamp, light edge wear.
Cite this card
Street scene, Deer Isle, Maine, circa 1906, postcard, c. 1902. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/street-scene-deer-isle-maine-circa-1906. Accessed October 24, 2026.
