A road leads past a white house and a small building with an American flag toward a swimming pool in Castine, Maine. Cars are parked near the pool, with trees framing the foreground and a field and distant hills beyond.
Castine sits on Penobscot Bay, a summer destination in Hancock County. The scene places the pool in the mid-20th century, when summer visitors and local families reached the pool by car.
Real photo postcard, black-and-white, no border. Caption in white at bottom reads 'SWIMMING POOL CASTINE ME', scratched in the negative. Cars appear 1940s-1950s.
No postmark, stamp, or address — card is unused. Divided-back ('CORRESPONDENCE' / 'ADDRESS') layout with 'PLACE STAMP HERE' box at top right. Small pencil/pen notation 'RMLJ' and '8-' in the upper-left corner (dealer code, not correspondence). Front is a black-and-white real-photo view with caption scratched in the negative; no white border, glossy/photo surface.
Cite this card
Swimming pool and parked cars, Castine, ME, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1940. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/swimming-pool-and-parked-cars-castine-me-circa-1940. Accessed November 2, 2026.
