Looking east down a crisply rendered 42nd Street, this 1914 Irving Underhill card captures New York at a pivotal moment — the gleaming white New York Public Library, opened just three years prior in 1911, anchors the right side of the composition beside the still-young Bryant Park, while trolley tracks, horse-drawn carts, and early automobiles compete for the cobblestones in a city straddling two eras. Underhill's aerial perspective gives the image a sweeping grandeur that makes this one of the most visually satisfying early New York cards of the period. The reverse carries the Attamen Co. "Lucky Buck" trade mark in the stamp box — a known New York novelty publisher's imprint — and a full descriptive caption noting that Bryant Park was "the site of the Crystal Palace" and named for poet William Cullen Bryant. Unused and crisp, this card is a genuine piece of Gilded Age New York documentation.