A Real Photo Postcard with  “Our water line”  written on the front underneath the photo. What is a water line? It would have to do with a water easement, which is a property owner’s right to have access to a water line that would be owned by somebody else – as in a water source like a creek, running next to the property, or to a water drainage system. In the photo three women and three children (a girl and two boys?) pose at what looks like the back porch of their house. They are looking across the water line to the photographer who was on the other side. You can see that the child on our left is a girl seated on the wooden fence on the quilt or rug that is draped over it. This could have been a home that had a creek in the back, which had overflowed after a heavy rain. Or would the water have always been this high?

Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box, circa 1907 – 1918.

Price:  $4.00

Source:  What Is a Water Easement. wiseGEEK. Accessed 13 Sep 2014 (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-water-easement.htm)