by Detroit Publishing Company (1898–1897)
Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
― Sir Richard Francis Burton
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
Sources:
[1] Original image from the New York Public Library.
[2] The Real Victorian's digitally enhanced version of the postcard (seen above), downloadable as a 12" x 7.5" @ 300 ppi JPEG.
Digitally enhanced reproductions of public domain postcards are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.