This example of postcard art was not mailed; it may have been part of an advertising campaign for Pocono Mountain resorts, camps, or other vacation spots.
“The Poconos” is the name traditionally given to the section of the Allegheny Plateau that lines the Delaware River in northeast Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocono_Mountains
Since the middle of the 19th century, the Pocono mountains have attracted large numbers of vacationers and sports enthusiasts.
https://poconomountainprovisions.com/articles/history-poconos
We have seen several postcard stories related to the Poconos:
“The Buck Hill Inn” (1910), “Sam Will Swim Like a Duck” (1911), “A Visit to Flagstaff Park” (1911), “Picking Daisies in the Mountains” (1920), and “The Vacation Programme” (1939).
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The face of the linen-style postcard is a brightly-colored drawing of two boys fishing.
On a grassy bank. beneath overspreading trees, two boys have cast lines into the placid water of a lake or slow stream.
The composition is so finely balanced that the seated figures are almost mirror images of one another.
Some variation in wild flowers and other foliage, the presence of a patient dog, and a tin can for bait, are the only differences in the “halves” of the drawing.
A printed title in the margin of the drawing denotes, “A Cozy Spot in the Poconos”.
There is no identification of the artist.
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The postcard was published by The Stroudsburg Glass Company and printed by “Metrocraft” of Everett, Massachusetts.
(Stroudsburg, a borough on the Delaware River and the county seat of Monroe County, has long been a center of industry and commerce.
Throughout the 19th century, Stroudsburg was a hub of transporting ore, manufactured goods, and produce across the Delaware to New Jersey or southward to Philadelphia.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroudsburg,_Pennsylvania
Because the postcard was never mailed, we might assume that some collector saved the charming image for personal enjoyment.
