Description
This colorful postcard showcases a tranquil corner of New Haven Green, featuring charming brick paths, lush greenery, and stately buildings. The back reveals it’s an advertisement for Frank S. Platt Co.’s lawn seed and fertilizer, noting the green’s reseeding in 1909. This delightful early 20th-century postcard was published by Chilton Printing Co.
Front Text (cleaned):
A corner of the New Haven Green
Back Text (cleaned):
Made by Chilton Printing Co., Phila., Pa., U.S.A.
A CORNER OF THE
OLD GREEN
Plowed for the first time for over half a century, and reseeded with Platt's Evergreen Lawn Grass Seed and Fertilizer…
April 15, 1909. Photographed August 15. We have more of the same kind.
The Frank S. Platt Co.
350 to 356 State St., New Haven, Conn.
Mrs. Geo. Kirtland,
Westbrook,
Conn.
