Description: Freedom Acres Farm Terrace Pools Wilmot Flat NH New Hampshire Postcard In 1949 Kay White and Donna Niles, veterans of the WWII Women’s Army Corps, purchased 26 wooded acres at the foot of Mt. Kearsarge. The parcel was on the west side of the Old Winslow Road in Wilmot which they called Freedom Acres Farm. Kay unearthed her great-grandmother’s preserve recipes and made several different types of jams and jellies. The result was so successful, that she and Donna decided to send them as Christmas gifts to their Army buddies and friends in New York City. This ultimately turned into a 40-year mail order business they called Taste of the Wild. It closed in 1980. The Nowell Farm in North Wilmot was established in the 1950s and in 2017 was protected by a conservation easement through the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust. Mike Roberts (1905-1989) is famously known as America's Postcard King due to his impressive career in color photography and printing that spanned more than 50 years. He began working in a photo studio in San Bernardino when he was young and had the opportunity to photograph figures like Albert Einstein and Amelia Earhart. He also photographed scenes from the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco to be published in The Saturday Evening Post, Fortune, and Life and was later commissioned to take color photographs for a Standard Oil marketing campaign after WWII with the idea that color photos would be given to people who were filling their cars up with gas so they would want to take trips to the places in the photos, using more gas. Mike's son, Bob Roberts, said that his father had a bunch of photographs left over from the commission and decided to turn them into postcards. Bromley & Company, Boston Massachusetts 1927-1990. Please review the photos carefully for condition and detail. Normal wear associated with an old postcard have creases, corner bumps, scratches, ink on the front etc.
Price: 7.99 USD
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
End Time: 2025-01-15T02:25:02.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Unit of Sale: Single Unit
Number of Items in Set: 1
Artist: Kay White
Occasion: Thinking of You
Signed: No
Size: Standard (5.5 x 3.5 in)
Material: Cardboard
City: Wilmot Flat
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Brand/Publisher: Mike Roberts Studio
Subject: Farming
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Continent: North America
Era: Photochrome (1939-Now)
Region: New Hampshire
Country: United States
Theme: Cities & Towns, Domestic & Family Life, Occupational
Features: Chrome
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Postage Condition: Unposted
