Postcards were an extremely popular way of conveying news or just simply staying in touch in the early years of the 20^th century. The market for the cards was huge and photographers took thousands of photographs across the state to meet the demand. However, the vast majority of these photos were taken in the cities and towns. Only a relatively small percentage of the postcards depict rural scenes, and most of the covered bridges were located in rural areas of the state. Consequently, early postcard scenes depicting Indiana’s covered bridges are less common than many of the other postcard scenes. The fact that several of the rural covered bridges were photographed is probably an indication of their significance in that post-Victorian era.

Postcard images in the print

Covered Wagon Bridge over the Wabash River at Covington in Fountain County	Covered Bridge at Cataract in Owen County
Poole Pike Wagon Bridge near New Albany	The Shelbyville Bridge over Blue River
The Old River Bridge (probably over the Mississinewa River in Randolph County) south of Redkey (Jay County)	Covered Bridge near Roann in Wabash County (presumably over the Eel River)
Old Wagon Bridge over the Wabash River at Terre Haute	Richland Creek Bridge near Liberty (Union County)

The artwork in the upper left-hand corner of the print is based on a photograph of the Wright Bridge near Farmland in Randolph County. That photograph was taken by James Keesling around 1960 and can be seen in the Randolph County pages on this site.

Some postcards tell an amazing story. For example, the Richland Creek card shows livestock in a fenced field in the foreground. There’s a horse and buggy on the road leading to the bridge. There’s a farmhouse and other farm buildings just beyond the bridge. And there’s a passenger train passing over a bridge above the road just beyond the farmhouse. That train is probably traveling on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railroad line that crossed Richland Creek west of Liberty.

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