Wentworth Home for the Aged, Dover, New Hampshire, circa 1910

Subject: Hospitals & Sanatoria
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1907 (Golden Age)

Back of Wentworth Home for the Aged, Dover, New Hampshire, circa 1910, c. 1907 lithograph postcard — Back

About this subject

A large three-story red brick institutional building with green shutters and white columned porches, set among trees and shrubs on a broad lawn. A wooden post-and-rail fence runs across the foreground.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Wentworth Home Aug 16 Dear Betti I am well and I am glad you are haveing a good time would like to see you all today. How is Aunt Emma give my love to all and a kiss kiss Lillian for me from Peggie

PostmarkedDover, NH, August 17, 1908, 10:30

Addressed to

Mrs H C Hacking

Conway Center, R F D

Postcard record

Postmarked	August 17, 1908, 10:30, Dover, NH
Condition	Fair
Place addressed	Mrs H C Hacking, Conway Center, NH
Place depicted	Wentworth Home for the Aged, Dover, NH
Publisher	The Robbins Bros Co., Boston, MA
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930
Notes	Chromolithograph with textured surface; no white border, image bleeds to edge. Heavy dark speckling/staining across the sky area; corner wear. Postmark: DOVER N.H. AUG 17 10-30A 1908. Divided-back card with flag 'Post Card' cancel; imprint along left edge 'No. J. 1214 The Robbins Bros Co., Boston, Mass. and Germany.' Light edge wear and album residue at top left; small pencil marks.

Cite this card

Wentworth Home for the Aged, Dover, New Hampshire, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/wentworth-home-for-the-aged-dover-new-hampshire-circa-1910. Accessed October 5, 2026.