Crisp American flags snap from the stone piers of Montgomery, Alabama's imposing federal post office building in this vivid linen-era card, the neoclassical colonnaded façade rendered in Curteich's signature saturated palette under a cloud-streaked sky — civic authority made permanent in limestone and printer's ink. Postmarked August 24, 1938, and mailed from Montgomery itself, the card carries a breezy message from a young woman named Ethlyn to her friend Hattie in Columbus, Mississippi: she recounts seeing the film Love Finds Andy Hardy at the picture show ("It was a scream"), mentions she left in a hurry, and expects to be home by Sunday. A perfect marriage of Linen-era Americana and Depression-era social ephemera.