A tram glides across the ornate Blauwbrug over the Amstel River in this richly hand-colored Edwardian view of Amsterdam, the decorative stone lamp pedestals and carved lion balustrades catching afternoon light while pedestrians in period dress stroll the wide cobbled approach — sent from the Netherlands all the way to a H. on Lake Park Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, this little card carried a snippet of Dutch city life to the American Midwest in the early 1900s, when the Blauwbrug (rebuilt 1883 in French Second Empire style, inspired by Paris's Pont Alexandre III) was already celebrated as Amsterdam's most beautiful bridge and the electric tram line threading across it was a symbol of modern urban progress.