Three massive smokestacks pierce a pale Louisiana sky above the sprawling white buildings of the American Sugar Refinery in Chalmette — once proudly billed as "the largest in the world" — in this vivid color-halftone postcard postmarked April 27, 1922, from New Orleans. The sender, traveling through the industrial corridor just downriver from the French Quarter, has inscribed the front in pencil: "Were through this April 26th, 1922." The reverse carries a long, densely written message from a traveler named (by context) writing to Margaret in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — filed with breathless observations about the South, the city, and the journey, cancelled with a bold New Orleans station 4 postmark the very next morning. The American Sugar Refinery at Chalmette was part of the American Sugar Refining Company empire (later Domino Sugar) and was for a time genuinely the world's largest cane sugar refinery, a titan of the post-Reconstruction Louisiana sugar economy.