City Hall And Plaza San Juan Puerto Rico PR 1907 Trolley Postcard For Sale

The City Hall and Plaza de Armas in San Juan, Porto Rico, embody the island\'s Spanish colonial civic architecture with bell towers around the central square; after the Spanish–American War and the 1898 transfer of sovereignty to the United States, streetscapes in the early 1900s featured electric trolley cars, pedestrians, and prominently displayed American flags, reflecting changes in governance and urban life, with the image distributed by Waldrop Photo Co..

Front:
Dear Friend Mar 11 1907 We sail tomorrow. Our stay here has been one of extreme pleasure. Will tell you all when I get homeBack:
Not visible. The card explicitly states \"THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY.\"

📝 In-Scene Text
Not visible

🏢 Publisher Information
Waldrop Photo Co., San Juan, P. R.

💬 Captions
City Hall and Plaza, San Juan, Porto Rico

📮 Address
Mrs V. E. N. Cooke
North Ave
New Rochelle, NY

📅 Postmark & Stamp
**Origin Postmark:** Circular, black ink, from \"SAN JUAN P.R.\" (Puerto Rico), dated \"MAR 20\" (March 20), time \"530PM\". The year is obscured but is inferred to be 1961 based on the receiving postmark.
**Receiving Postmark:** Circular, black ink, from \"NEW ROCHELLE N.Y.\" (New York), dated \"APR 1\" (April 1), time \"7-AM\", year \"1961\".
**Stamp:** No actual stamp is visible. The card features a pre-printed rectangular box with text: \"Place Stamp Here\", \"Domestic One cent\", \"Foreign Two cents\", and \"1907\".
Postmark location appears to be San Juan P.R. but the year is not fully legible; inferred to be 1961.

🏛️ Publisher & Postal Note
**Publisher:** \"UNITED ART PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK CITY (PRINTED IN GERMANY.)\" (printed vertically along the left edge)
**Postal Note:** \"POST CARD\" (printed prominently in red)
**Postal Note:** \"THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS ONLY.\" (printed in black below \"POST CARD\")
**Postal Note (within stamp box):** \"Place Stamp Here\", \"Domestic One cent\", \"Foreign Two cents\", \"1907\"

📌 Context
This postcard, despite being printed with a \"1907\" postal rate indicator and a non-divided back typical of pre-1907 US postcards (where the message would typically be on the picture side), was actually mailed much later in 1961. The domestic postcard rate in 1907 was indeed one cent, but by 1961, it was three cents. This means the sender would have had to affix a 3-cent stamp, overriding the printed instruction. The journey from San Juan, Puerto Rico (which became a U.S. Commonwealth in 1952, making mail domestic) to New Rochelle, New York, took 12 days (March 20 to April 1). United Art Publishing Co. was a known publisher, often producing high-quality chromolithographed postcards printed in Germany. The use of an older card stock in a later era is a common occurrence in postal history.

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