Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Outfit Boxed Flash Camera + 1909 Cannon Monument Pedestal For Sale

Postmarked in Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York, on May 16, 1909, this divided-back era postcard presents a hand-tinted photographic view of a cannon monument standing upon a multi-tiered stone pedestal in a landscaped public setting. The dark iron cannon contrasts sharply with the light stonework of the memorial, which rises from a broad base through a rectangular central section before tapering to support the barrel. Deep green summer foliage frames the scene, while a dirt path crosses the foreground, and indistinct two- and three-story buildings, including a reddish-brown structure with visible windows, appear along the left and right margins. The sky is a faded pale blue, a common characteristic of early twentieth-century hand-coloring. The composition suggests a settled town square or park, and the cannon itself, likely intended as a war memorial, forms the principal visual and historical focus.The verso is fully consistent with the divided-back format mandated after 1907. A crisp double postmark identifies the place of mailing as Little Falls, with the wavy killer lines of the cancelling device crossing a green one-cent George Washington definitive stamp, likely from the ~1910 series. The card was addressed in clear period cursive to Miss Pearl Davis of Little Falls, and the postmark confirms a local dispatch within the same town; no separate message appears in the correspondence area, suggesting the scenic image itself was the intended communication. The hand-tinted coloration remains reasonably saturated for a card of this age, and the corners are mildly softened from postal handling, but the postmark and handwriting are both entirely legible, and no major tears, creases, or stains are evident. No publisher’s imprint or series number appears on the back, a situation common to small-town souvenir postcards of this era. The combination of a fully dated small-city postmark, a local recipient, and a clear representation of an early twentieth-century civic monument renders this an appealing artifact for collectors of New York State postcards, military memorial imagery, and hand-tinted photographic ephemera from the divided-back period.