Collectors of American Glass and Pottery, along with viewers of the American “Antiques Roadshow”, may be familiar with the renowned pottery works that operated along the Ohio River at the turn of the 20th century.

From Google:

“In 1900, the Ohio River Valley was the undisputed center of the American ceramics industry.

Drawn by abundant, high-quality clay deposits and cheap, easy transportation, over half of all U.S. pottery operations were clustered in this region.”

Rockwood Pottery, valued for meticulous hand-decoration and ornamentation, was produced near Cincinnati, further west on the Ohio River.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rookwood_Pottery_Company

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The face of the postcard is an expansive view of the “Largest Pottery in the World”.

A subtitle identifies, “Near Chester, West Virginia, and East Liverpool, Ohio”.

In the foreground, one sees the wide Ohio River, which flows out of Pennsylvania, past the northern panhandle of West Virginia, and forms the border of Ohio.

Chester, a small city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, was home to pottery works that originated across the Ohio River, in East Liverpool.

More than 800 residents of Chester worked in pottery businesses; Chester was also home to a rolling steel mill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester,_West_Virginia

East Liverpool, located directly on the Ohio River, was the heart of the ceramic industry. It was home to nearly 500 individual pottery companies that produced the majority of America’s crockery, whiteware, and dinnerware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Liverpool,_Ohio

The original view, probably a photograph, was published by the Rogers News Agency of East Liverpool. Ohio.

This linen-style postcard view was printed in the “C. T. Art-Colortone” process of the Curt Teich Company of Chicago.

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On the reverse, a blurb identifies specifically, the Homer Laughlin Potteries of Newell, WV and the Edwin M. Knowles Potteries of East Liverpool Ohio.

https://putnamandspeedwellvintage.com/category/ohio-river-pottery

Because the postcard was neither addressed nor mailed, we have no clues to the identity or the particular interests of the collector.

Nevertheless, someone preserved the postcard in excellent condition.