St. Johnsbury VT Panorama Downtown Church Steeples 1910s - RPPC Photo Postcard

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View St. Johnsbury VT Panorama Downtown Church Steeples 1910s - RPPC Photo Postcard with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. It is a beautifully composed small-town New England scene full of period architectural detail. Hope to see you. A 5x3" vintage RPPC photo postcard (NOT a modern reprint) from the estate of a vintage postcard collector. This was part of a huge collection of antique postcards. * We always automatically combine orders for shipping, so add as many postcards as you’d like to your order! Photo Overview This antique real photo postcard offers a sweeping bird's-eye panorama of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, captured in the early 1900s by the Eastern Illustrating Co. of Belfast, Maine. The image shows the compact commercial downtown core surrounded by residential neighborhoods, multiple church steeples piercing the skyline, and the rolling Green Mountain foothills stretching into the misty background. It is a beautifully composed small-town New England scene full of period architectural detail. The card was produced by Eastern Illustrating Co., one of New England's most prolific real photo postcard publishers, active from roughly 1910 through the 1940s. A pencil-written message on the back addresses the recipient and mentions St. Johnsbury directly, providing a personal time-capsule connection to the town. Historical Notes St. Johnsbury, Vermont was at the height of its industrial and civic prominence in the early 20th century, driven largely by the Fairbanks Scale Company, which had made the town internationally known since the mid-1800s. The downtown seen in this panorama -- with its Victorian commercial blocks -- remained largely intact through much of the 20th century, though several structures were later lost to urban renewal and fire. St. Johnsbury is also the home of the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium and the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, a National Historic Landmark, both of which still stand today. The town's population peaked around this period and has since declined, making early photographic records of its streetscape especially valued by local historians and collectors. Browse our complete RPPC Photo Postcard photograph collection. Text Present Front, bottom center caption (printed on photo): "View of St. Johnsbury Vt. 65." Back, publisher stamp (top center): "PHOTOGRAPH POST CARD FROM STUDIO OF EASTERN ILLUSTRATING CO BELFAST ME / CORRESPONDENCE [left] FOR THE ADDRESS [right]" Back, handwritten message (pencil, difficult to read fully): "Fanny, a fine time at the I.O.O.F. [Independent Order of Odd Fellows?] meeting has [been] in St. Johnsbury. Hope to see you. [Signed] Fannie [or similar name]" -- [Note: handwriting is faint and partially legible; approximate transcription] Print analysis This is a genuine real photo postcard (RPPC) produced by Eastern Illustrating Co. of Belfast, Maine, a firm that was active from approximately 1910 onward. The photographic surface shows the characteristic continuous-tone silver gelatin appearance of a true photographic print with no halftone dot pattern visible. Based on the publisher, the style of the back printing, and the early divided-back format, this card dates from approximately 1910-1915 and is considered a Type 1 original RPPC printed close in time to when the photograph was taken. Condition All postcards we sell are in fair to excellent vintage condition. Category: Collectibles › Postcards & Supplies › Postcards › Topographical Postcards.