Description: This linen-era card depicts the Oldest House in the U.S., located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, originally part of an Indian Pueblo. The scene shows the adobe structure with a sign reading 'Oldest House U.S.A.,' accompanied by a figure in a wide-brimmed hat standing beside two burros loaded with goods. A mountain and trees are visible in the background, evoking the historic Southwest atmosphere of old Santa Fe.
Publisher: Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, USA; distributed and copyrighted by J.R. Willis, Box 565, Albuquerque, NM. Card number C-63 / SA-H674.
Posted: Posted May 29, 1936, from Albuquerque, NM. Addressed to Mrs. H.O. Stains, 1620 NE 24th Ave, Portland, Oregon. The sender writes of feeling guilty praising the country knowing the recipient cannot be there to enjoy it, describing a lovely park that is cool and green with grass and trees, and praising Albuquerque for its trees, calling it a beautiful city. Signed 'Vi.' A note along the side mentions 'this is like the little old road to the artists colony' and references Roosevelt Park and 'the pond.'
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