The Museum's first ever online exhibition draws from its collection of images: picture postcards of the Charles River and riverbank landmarks. Postcards were an nationwide fad in the years before World War I. Newton residents and visitors sent postcards by the millions -- and Newton had lots of visitors, drawn by the recreational resources of the river. They came with picnic baskets to wander the parks and preserves newly created by the Metropolitan Parks Commission, to wonder at Echo Bridge, to marvel at the menagerie at Norumbega Park, and to go Canoeing on the Charles.