A 5.5x3.5" vintage half tone photo postcard from the estate of a vintage postcard collector. This was part of a huge collection of antique postcards.

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Photo Overview

This antique color postcard shows the Victorian style Home of the Holy Childhood in Rondout, New York, a large three story house with ornate wraparound porch, arched side addition, red tiled roof and tall shade trees in front. The scene captures the religious institution’s peaceful residential setting, with manicured lawns and a quiet driveway leading up to the front entrance, highlighting architectural details such as decorative railings, brackets and window trim typical of early 20th century Hudson Valley homes.

The Home of the Holy Childhood was a Catholic orphanage and charitable institution serving children in the Rondout section of Kingston, NY, which grew as a busy Hudson River and Delaware and Hudson Canal port in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Leighton & Valentine Co. view cards of small city religious homes and institutions like this were printed in relatively modest numbers and have become popular with both local Kingston history collectors and architectural postcard specialists; add this scarce vintage view to your collection today before it is gone.

Text Present

Front lower left: Home of the Holy Childhood, Rondout, N.Y.
Front lower right: 213372

Back center logo: FAMOUS / QUALITY / THROUGHOUT / THE WORLD / L & V Co / TRADE MARK.
Back upper left (split across lines): POST / CARD
Back right: Address Only
Back left vertical: The Leighton & Valentine Co., N.Y. City. / Printed in United States.

Print analysis:
The postcard back identifies Leighton & Valentine Co., a known early 1900s publisher, and the front image shows fine color halftone dot screening typical of lithographed view cards rather than a real photo. The undivided message side is not present, and the "Address Only" back with L&V triangle logo matches c1910s-early 1920s American-made Leighton & Valentine issues. This is an original vintage lithographed postcard, not a later reprint, corresponding to a Type 1 postcard printed contemporaneously with the original negative/image, likely c1910s.

Condition: All postcards we sell are in fair to excellent vintage condition. Please see photos for any tears, folds, smudges, or other age damage that may be present.