
“Just going for a walk in this park.”
1922 postmark
(S.K. Simon, via John Colando Collection)
“It is almost like summer today and how beautiful the country is getting! The park which this card shows is unknown to me. I must find out whether it is real or imaginary.”
1913 postmark
(F.W. Poecker)
“Would it be nice when we can have a picnic in this park?”
1947 postmark
(Star Stationery)
“This is a beautiful peaceful spot. Am enjoying it to the full.”
1908 postmark
(Mount Clair News Company)
“This is the park thru which we walk to the village, trains, etc. From end to end, about five minutes walk. Wish you were here to walk it with me!”
c. 1915
(New Jersey Postcard Co., via Montclair Public Library)
“This whole place looks like a beautiful park.”
1915 postmark
(Brooklyn Postcard Co.)

1928 postmark: Essex County required all its parks to fly a large American flag near playgrounds and fields. “An endeavor is made to instill into the mind of the rising generation lessons of patriotism, and make the boys and girls not only healthy men and women, but also better citizens,” an Essex County Park Commission report explained in 1912. (Brooklyn Postcard Co.)