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Looking east, postcard view, postmarked 1913. The road in the Looking east, showing the station park. This is an earlier view than the one foreground leads through the station park down to the Delaware on the left. Note fewer buildings in the townscape. Postmarked August 2, River, where amusements operated on Shellenberger's Island. 1906, sixteen months after the station was opened.

Very early view from an unused post card. The camelback 4-4-0 West end of the station, with hotel carriages. With spaces for twenty also dates this as early in the 20th century. Note the gardener different hotels at the station, each one had a sign hanging from the clipping the bushes just in front of the locomotive. canopy edge, to help passengers locate their carriage. Dated 1911.

Hand colored postcard view of the east end of the station, with a Looking west, with the station park and townscape. Note the postmark of June 16, 1910. white painted telegraph poles. Postmarked June 2, 1911.

One of the Lackawanna's wooden cab camelback 4-4-0's on the Another early view from the station park, with a train just arriving. westbound track in this early view. The locomotive exhibits the typically clear anthracite exhaust.

Two people appear to be conversing with another in a hotel Most postcards of this era were printed and hand colored in carriage in this view. Note the freight platform and small building, Germany. If no color cues came with the image, the colorist evidence of the role the railroad played in servicing the hotel trade would use local reference, which is why the station is often with all manner of goods and materials. Dated May 14, 1911. shown with a red roof, the color of the tile roofs common in Germany. Dated August 17, 1919.

A westbound train in a card postmarked August 15, 1907. This card was printed in Scranton for Lamb's Souvenir Store, Delaware Water Gap. Dated August 13, 1908.

The crossing guard and his companion relaxing between trains. A westbound train arriving in this view dated August 2, 1910. The hotel across from the station is the Delaware House.

Little is known of this postcard The only information It must be the height of the tourist season as hotel carriages fill every it has is a date penciled on the front, September 27, available space in front of the station. Freight is also being loaded 1908. into wagons in front of the freight house.
Top Photo: This photograph is one of many taken by the DL&W Railroad for its Phoebe Snow Advertisements in 1910. From the collection of John Willever.

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