Color postcard (14 x 9 cm.) with a view of the Carter Lake club house in Omaha, Nebraska. It is a two story structure on the lakefront with a wrap-around porch on both levels, a three gables visible on the roof and a pointed tower on the roof top. There are three American flags flying from the roof. There are several people sitting or standing on the lower porch and the walkway over the water. The title "Carter Lake Club House, Omaha, Nebr." is in the top left corner.
Carter Lake was formed after an 1877 flood that moved a portion of the Missouri River to the east, leaving a small part of Iowa on the Nebraska side of the river and creating this lake out of a newly isolated section of the Missouri. It was originally named Cut Off Lake, in reference to its origin, and also known as Lake Nakoma, but in July 1906 the name of the lake was changed to Carter Lake in honor of Levi Carter of the Carter White Lead Works of Omaha after one of the park's board members complained that "Cut Off" was suggestive of "no-man's land, prize fights or an amputated leg." In 1908 Carter Lake was became a part of the Omaha park system. Cummins, H. J. "Levi Carter Park (Cut Off Lake) Act of Nature Formed Mecca for Water Play". Omaha World-Herald, August 7, 1985, p.1.
