This is a postcard more by association than by intent: It is a photographic print made on paper with a preprinted postcard back. The card is undated and unpostmarked. "Real photo" cards like this one can be dated approximately by the design of the printed back, but I lack the expertise. The best I can do is guess that because of the divided back it is later than 1906, and because of the telephone lines and horse-drawn rig in the photograph it's probably before World War I. (If you can help date the picture by the back design, please e-mail me. The vehicle, up close, is a light four-wheeled covered wagon pulled by one horse, and driven by a man wearing a broad-brimmed hat. There are telephone poles on both sides of the road, as these details show. On the left side of the road is a pole carrying a single angled peg ending in a glass insulator. On the right side is a pole with both a peg and a crossbar: The object on the right side of the right-hand detail looks like a board carrying a row of glass insulators, but it is not. It is actually a roadsign. Enlarged and enhanced, it looks like this: The text seems to be something on the order of "$$$$$$$$ Saved by Trading with Robertson (?) General (?) Store." (8/28/99) Home | The 1910s | Next card