Punch Bowl Spring-Yellowstone Park
Colorized postcard showing a circular rock formation with water in front of a treeline. The number designation on the front indicates the postcard is part of a series.
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Creation Date
Unknown
Your TR Source
Springs
Happy Isles, Yosemite Valley, California
This postcard shows Yosemite Valley’s Happy Isles, situated in the rapidly flowing Merced River. The white water of the river seems to be rushing by the trees situated on the banks and, in some situations, in the edge of the river.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “First we see the waters of the Merced River flowing among the Happy Isles where the many natural springs come bubbling up to replenish the [sic] stream.”
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Upway Wishing Well, near Weymouth
This postcard shows a mineral spring and wishing well near Weymouth, England. Several people lean on the well near the spring. Charles C. Myers shares that there is a local superstition that if you drink the water of the spring and make a wish at the same time, the wish will be granted.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Back in the hills not far from Weymouth is a beautiful brook and quite a summer resort named Wishing Well. There is a spring there and an abundance of mineral water and some supersticious [sic] people seem to think that if you go there and make a wish while drinking this water that the wish will come true. Anyway the place is quite a noted summer resort.”
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The convention spring at Saratoga
A “Medicinal Spring” with water labeled “A Clean-Cut Progressive Platform” flows from a stone figure shaped like Theodore Roosevelt. “Sherman, Woodruff, Wadsworth, [and] Barnes” are standing by the spring, holding glasses, with dubious looks on their faces. Caption: You can lead them to the waters, but can you make them drink?
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1910-09-21