Photo Postcard
Black and white, genuine photo postcard from 1958. It is a picture of Polly’s restaurant at Minot’s Corner in Westford, the one with the airplane on the roof. The card was made by Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co. of Belfast, Maine. The “postcard camera” was first developed by the Eastman Kodak Co in 1903, according to the MFA Boston. WWII printed billions of genuine or real photo postcards, which are a major view into twentieth-century America today.
Costa Polly (1908-1998) opened the restaurant in 1941 at Minot’s Corner, which is also known as Cornerstone Square today. It was the one with an airplane on the roof. Polly’s was closed by 1970, with a Mobil gas station now at the site.
The card was donated by Sara Bergeron as part of a larger donation in 2024.
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