Duncan Gardens Manito Park Spokane Washington WA Postcard

Thousands of visitors frequent these beautiful gardens annually where they find the flowers in bloom that have helped make Spokane a center of culture and beautiful homes.

A formal 3-acre European Renaissance-style garden with a large granite fountain at the center and a gazebo at the south end. It is located immediately to the south of the Gaiser Conservatory, which overlooks it from atop a small hill. The arrangement of the flower beds and plants make the Duncan Garden bilaterally symmetrical. There are 63 beds in the garden which are filled with over 30 thousand individual plants. Named for John Duncan, Spokane's second park superintendent from 1910 to 1942, the garden was originally known as the Sunken Garden for its location in a previously muddy depression. Duncan designed and built the garden in 1912, and it was renamed in his honor in 1942. The granite fountain at the center was donated by Verus Davenport, widow of early Spokane businessman Louis B. Davenport, in 1956.

Colourpicture (1938-1969) Boston and Cambridge, MA: was a greeting card and postcard printer and distributor in Boston, Massachusetts, on Newbury Street with a factory at 76a Atherton Street. A major publisher and printer of linen view-cards of the United States. They later went on to publish photochromes and small spiral bound picture booklets under the trademark Plastichrome in the 1950's. The trademark expired in 1987.

Smith-Western Co., Tacoma WA (1947-Present) Kyle Smith Sr. first began selling his photography as postcards from the trunk of his car. Returning home after the end of World War II, and with a passion for photography, he founded Tacoma’s Smith-Western Co. in 1947, selling his black and white scenic photographic postcards to tourist retailers throughout Washington and Oregon from the back of his Mercury Station Wagon. It has become one of the largest wholesale suppliers of tourist items not only in the United States, but globally.

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