Leafy young trees line a curved drive leading to the handsome Edwardian brick-and-limestone campus of St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis, captured in this warm hand-colored card postmarked June 1914 — just weeks before the world would plunge into war. The hospital, founded in 1866 by the Episcopal Diocese, occupied this gracious Delmar Boulevard campus and represented the civic pride of early-twentieth-century St. Louis. A message from a patient or visitor — writing to a woman in Millwood (likely Texas) — mentions not being gone long and looking at something at 10 o'clock, the cramped handwriting suggesting an intimate, perhaps worried, correspondence. The card's soft palette of honey brick, cream stone, and garden-green lawn evokes the gentler pace of pre-war American institutional life.