First Postcards to Share

Here are two early cards of people in canoes.


The first one is depicts a large number of people attending a band concert in Detroit in canoes. It is fun to lo0k at the young men with their bowties and the young women with their parasols and wonder if they ever
knew they were put on a postcard.

And what are the guys in the bottom center handing off from one canoe to the next?

The card is postmarked 1911.

No fancy stuff like zip codes

or full city and state names
needed then - just

Box 71, Sta F (?), Cinn O

The second one is unused, but it has an undivided back and is probably from before 1908:

I find it very interesting that this

is actually a card put out by a

railroad line to (apparently) promote

deer hunting by canoe