View on Charles River, Waltham, Mass.

Subject: Canoes & Rowing
Card type: Printed photo
Date: c. 1930 (White Border)

Back of View on Charles River, Waltham, Mass., c. 1930 printed photo postcard — Back

About this subject

A broad view of the Charles River at Waltham crowded with canoes and small boats, several paddlers in the foreground. At right a wooden railing and landing are lined with onlookers in hats and umbrellas watching the boats; wooded banks close the far shore.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Hope you didn't wait for me Sat. Didn't get thru until 10.30, wouldn't have gotten to W. until 4.45 & knew that would be too late. More carefully inspected, it didn't have a thing to do with myself. And I am sorry

PostmarkedWaltham, MA, September 7, 1906, 12:00

Addressed to

Miss Elsie Maxfield

40 Tufts St., Malden, Mass.

Postcard record

Postmarked	September 7, 1906, 12:00, Waltham, MA
Condition	Fair
Place addressed	Miss Elsie Maxfield, 15 Malden Ave., Malden, MA
Place depicted	Charles River, Waltham, MA
Place depicted	11 Harvard St, Waltham, MA, 02453
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930
Notes	Undivided-back era card; handwritten message written on the front (top edge upside down and along the bottom). Sepia-toned photographic print, printed in Germany. Dark ink spotting/stains in the sky area; light edge and corner wear. Postmark: WALTHAM MASS. SEP 7 12-M 1906. Undivided back ("THE ADDRESS TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE."); Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No. 2196; light edge/corner wear; stamp intact.

Cite this card

View on Charles River, Waltham, Mass., postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/view-on-charles-river-waltham-mass. Accessed October 5, 2026.