Soaring above lower Manhattan's rooftops in gleaming Gothic terracotta, the brand-new Woolworth Building commands this colorful lithographed view of Broadway — published right around the skyscraper's celebrated 1913 opening, when it became the tallest building on earth at 792 feet. The card captures the building in its full 55-story glory against a pale blue sky with billowing clouds, surrounded by the now-vanished cityscape of early 20th-century New York. The sender — writing to a W.S. in Poolesville, Maryland — marvels in neat cursive: "This is the highest building in the world, 55 stories high. I do not care to be up there. How is your hip? It is raining quite hard here now. Everything is for Wilson up here only where we are." That last line — a reference to Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential victory — quietly dates the card to early 1913 and adds a delightful political footnote.