Description:
Color postcard printed on the top center front, "Old Fort Well, Old Deerfield, Mass." looking east across Main Street to a two-story white house. The card inscribed in pencil on the reverse, "My Mother's house in Deerfield" and is printed "Post Card / For Correspondence For Adress Only" and "Metropolitan News & Publ. Co., Boston, Mass, and Germany / Made in Germany." and "Place / Postage / Stamp Here / Domestic / One Cent / Foreign / Two Cents." Congress approved a special mailing rate for "private mailing card" or postcards of one cent, which was in effect until 1952 except for a three year period in the 1920s. Florence Copeland Stebbins (1888-1966) married Albert Elmer Shaw (1886-1952) in Deerfield in 1913 and then lived in Webster, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Charles Henry Stebbins (b.1859) who married Mary Elizabeth MacMahon (1858-1919) of Providence, RI, in 1880; granddaughter of Evander Graves Stebbins (1821-1885) and Matilda Childs Stebbins (1824-1885) of Deerfield; and great granddaughter of Zebina Stebbins 1797-1879) and Ruby Graves Stebbins (1796-1877) of Deerfield. Mary Elizabeth Stebbins lived on Main Street in Deerfield on Lot 29 III in this Italianate-style house built by Arthur W. Hoyt in 1858, which she owned from 1811 until her death. The house was sold to Deerfield Academy in 1926, and later moved to the east where it continues as Chapin Dormitory. See 2012.22.4 for a similar postcard.
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