Weather Church

Subject: Novelty & Mechanical Cards
Card type: Linen

Back of Weather Church, Waltham, MA, USA, linen postcard — Back

About this subject

A small white church with a tall pink steeple and cross, surrounded by green trees and bushes, with two birds flying and two figures walking on a snowy path. The card is a novelty 'Weather Church' with a poem explaining that the roof and steeple change color to predict weather.

Postcard Details

Message · in pencil

Gm Nuff

PublisherShore Studios

WALTHAM, MASS. JACKIE WEATHER CHURCH This church has roof and steeple BLUE When skies are fair and clouds are few; Their color turns to PINK, you'll see, For rain or high humidity; But when they have an ORCHID hue, Then you'll know a change is due. Place near Window or Door — Away from Heat #5 --- This card is a hygroscope with surprising accuracy in fore-casting weather. It is intended for indoor use but for best results must be placed where it will have access to outside air. IMPORTANT: SPRING, SUMMER and AUTUMN the card functions well anywhere. In WINTER it may remain con-stantly blue unless placed in the air space between window and storm sash, in an outside foyer or enclosed porch, in an automobile, etc. © SHORE STUDIOS, Brigantine, N. J.

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Postcard record

Series	#5
Condition	Very good
Place mentioned	11 Harvard St, Waltham, MA, 02453
Publisher	Shore Studios, Brigantine, NJ
Notes	Linen texture; blue border; cream border; novelty weather card; #5; printed signature 'JACKIE'; no publisher line. No postmark, stamp, or address — this is the printed back of a novelty hygroscope card (Shore Studios, Brigantine, N.J.); only a faint pencil scribble at the top edge. Undivided, no stamp box; front shows a white border and a fine linen-like screen texture.

Cite this card

Weather Church, postcard, n.d.. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/weather-church. Accessed October 5, 2026.