Prospect Park in Postcards

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The Palen sisters were my great grandmother's neighbors in Nyack, NY.  By sheer luck I ended up with their collection of fantastic historic postcards.  Here is a selection of historic postcards of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, sent between 1904-1919 to and from the Palens. 

Fredrick Law Olmsted & Calvert Vaux designed Prospect Park after Central Park.  Since it was built in 1860 the park's widely varied landscape has changed much, but still includes Olmsted & Vaux's meadows, woodlands, and ponds. The park's majestic entrances were designed by McKim, Meade and White.

This marks the first of an occasional series of Palen Postcard posts.