Title
1965 USA Washington DC Jefferson Memorial Cherry Blossom Tidal Basin Postcard
Front
Colour photographic view, in upright format, of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial at Washington, D.C., seen across the Tidal Basin in spring.
The upper two thirds of the image are filled with the overhanging branches of a Japanese flowering cherry in full bloom, a dense canopy of pale pink and white blossom on dark twisting branches spread against a bright blue sky, the flowers massed thickly across the top and sides of the frame.
Below and beyond, on the far shore of the Tidal Basin, stands the Jefferson Memorial, a circular white marble rotunda in the neoclassical manner, with a shallow domed roof, a continuous colonnade of tall Ionic columns encircling the drum, and a projecting pedimented portico of eight columns facing the water, approached by a broad flight of steps. Dark green trees and shrubs flank the building on both sides, and further blossoming cherries line the shore in a pale pink band at the water’s edge.
The lower part of the picture shows the still blue-grey water of the Tidal Basin, with a dark iron railing crossing the very bottom of the frame.
Back
Divided-back colour postcard, printed text in black.
Printed at the lower left:
“Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D. C. This Ionic Temple of white marble designed according to the taste displayed by Thomas Jefferson in his own design of Monticello near Charlottsville. The statue is by Rudolph Evans.”
Printed across the centre: “PRINCE LITHOGRAPH CO., INC., ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA”
Printed at the foot: “Distributed by L. B. Prince Co., Arl., Va.”
Printed at the right: “PE-14” and “ADDRESS”
Postage: one United States Liberty series definitive, 11 cents, in red and blue, showing the head and torch of the Statue of Liberty against a red ground, inscribed “U.S. POSTAGE” at the left, “LIBERTY” at the right, “11¢” at the upper left and “IN GOD WE TRUST” across the design. The stamp is tied by a wavy-line machine cancellation.
A circular datestamp is struck at the lower left reading in part “NAVY … 1965”.
A rubber handstamp in magenta reads “AIR MAIL” diagonally across the card.
Handwritten in blue ink in the address panel:
“Anne Smart
133. Wickham Ave
Cheam
Surrey
ENGLAND”
Handwritten in blue ink in the message area:
“Dear Anne,
We are in Washington. To the Memorial. Saw the Kennedy newspaper. We saw some monuments etc & Kennedy memorial strange. Took photos. 5 hours. Not there dining. Cheers, love Jenny.
Aunt M & Uncle Jenny.”
Estimated Era
Posted in 1965, the year shown in the circular naval datestamp, the card having been mailed through a United States Navy post office and carried by air to England. The 11 cent Liberty definitive belongs to the series first issued in 1954 and current through the 1960s, and represented the airmail postcard rate to Europe at that period. The sender’s reference to the Kennedy memorial places the visit after the assassination of November 1963, when the grave at Arlington with its eternal flame had become a principal object of pilgrimage. The Jefferson Memorial, dedicated in 1943 with Rudolph Evans’s bronze statue installed in 1947, is shown during the annual cherry blossom season, the trees being the descendants of those given by Japan in 1912.
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