Stately Neoclassical columns frame the entrance of Portsmouth, Ohio's proud New High School in this crisp white-border card postmarked December 5, 1919 — the building's limestone façade glowing against a soft watercolor sky, an American flag snapping above the roofline and flower beds bursting with end-of-season color. Portsmouth, a prosperous Scioto River manufacturing town in southern Ohio, built this imposing structure as a symbol of civic investment in public education. The message is delightfully breezy: the writer — signing only with a dash — tells a friend in Danvers, Massachusetts that Portsmouth is "sure some little town," that he arrived the night before and is heading on to Huntington that afternoon. A traveler's postcard dispatched in an era when a penny stamp carried news across the continent in days.