amylsacks' photos with the keyword: c1920

On the back: "This space for correspondence. Published by Edw. H. Mitchell. San Francisco." For more about this historic landmark (near the Oregon border) and other postcards with alternate views of the same region, click here .

No date or stamp on the back. Someone started to fill it out, but I guess they decided to keep it. I can't really blame them. It's a great image. (Shown slightly larger than original size.)

I'm guessing the pink sections are just red that faded over time. Shown slightly larger than original size.

I wish I had a year for you, but whoever had this card before me removed the stamp, the postmark, and almost all traces of the writing on back. :( Oh, and that background is a picture I snapped of the sand at low tide on Rockaway Beach in Oregon a few years ago. I just wanted something to contrast with the card's texture. Though I recognize that it's not a true collage. However, this is. ;)

There's a Bette Midler karaoke joke in here somewhere, but it's late and I need a beer. ;)

No, I don't know why Cupid is right-handed but wears his holster on the left. Probably some obscure code lost to us here in the 21st Century.

That look clearly says, "Gimme' candy and lots of it, or I'll read the whole dang poem out loud... all FOUR pages!"

"In the days of patch and powder--- Dreamful days of long ago-- If the damosels were prouder Than today we may not know; "But it is no elf of fancy That low whispers to us now Love's persuasive necromancy There was much the same as now. "On the island of Manhattan Dwelt there one of beauty rare, Where sleek beeves were left to fatten In the pastures broad and fair..."

Front cover of an illustrated, four-page card. Unsure of the year, and given its overall good shape, it might be a reproduction.