Antique hand-colored postcard featuring Spring Street from High Street, showing the Cochran Hotel, Newton, New Jersey. A wonderful early downtown streetscape with horse-drawn wagons, storefronts, pedestrians, and period businesses, capturing everyday life in Sussex County during the early 1900s.
Published by The American News Company, New York (Litho-Chrome, Germany). Mailed with a 1907 Deckertown, New Jersey postmark and 1¢ Benjamin Franklin stamp. Addressed to Branchville, New Jersey.
Condition is good antique condition with light corner and edge wear, a light crease near the top edge, and normal postal wear consistent with age. Please review all photos carefully for the best representation of condition.
An excellent postcard for collectors of Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey history, main street scenes, horse & buggy transportation, historic hotels, and early American postcards.
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