Flora dashes off a quick note on the front of this moody blue-tinted card of the First Baptist Church of Paterson, New Jersey — "from Flora, will write soon / I receid your letter to day" — her hurried script scrawled right across the Gothic stone tower that looms against a dramatic cloudy sky. The church itself, a commanding Romanesque Revival structure in rusticated grey stone, anchors a prominent corner of Paterson, the historic New Jersey silk-mill city that Alexander Hamilton helped found as America's first planned industrial city. Published by the Souvenir Post Card Co. of New York (card no. 3304), this is a classic undivided-back undivided-front era card mailed from Newfoundland, New Jersey in December 1905, addressed to Miss Lena S. Gould, Box 62, Ladysmith, Wisconsin — a charming cross-country connection between two small American towns at the dawn of the picture-postcard craze. The 1-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp ties the mailing precisely.