From a high vantage point above Fifth Avenue, this hand-colored panorama sweeps across Madison Square Park in full Edwardian flourish — the Met Life Tower (then the world's tallest building, completed 1909) dominates the left edge in gleaming white, its campanile crown recognizable across the borough, while the Flatiron Building's sharp prow noses into the middle distance and the lush park canopy stretches between, carriages and early automobiles implied on the avenues below. Addressed to a Mrs. Pilbean in Hamilton, Madison County, New York, the card was posted from New York City on September 29, 1913 with a machine cancel. The message, written in a fluid hand that crowds every margin, opens warmly — "Dear Mrs. Pilbean, I am sending you this…glad to hear of our visit…" — and closes with affectionate neighborhood news, the writer signing herself simply with a flourish. Published by Success Postal Card Co. of New York (No. 1065), this card captures midtown Manhattan at a pivotal architectural moment, the skyline still low enough that the Met Life Tower reads as a genuine colossus.