Color postcard of the Gothic Revival entrance gateway to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York — the soaring brownstone arches and spires of Richard Upjohn's masterwork framed by autumn trees, its tracery and pointed finials as elaborate as any English cathedral gate. Green-Wood opened in 1838 as one of America's first great rural cemeteries, a landscaped retreat that drew more visitors annually than Niagara Falls before Central Park was built; its gateway, completed in 1875, is a National Historic Landmark. A sender named Emma mailed this in August 1908, writing across the image to tell her Aunt Emma that she was having a fine time visiting Aunt Grace — a summer holiday in Brooklyn, the living and the dead both in mind.

• Caption: Entrance to Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Card no.: 2005
• Publisher: Illustrated Post Card Co., N.Y.
• Postmark: Brooklyn, N.Y., August 11, 1908
• Status: Posted