Heart-stopping even at 117 years' remove, this boldly composed pre-linen postcard captures a steel worker perched casually on an I-beam column high above lower Manhattan — the Brooklyn Bridge's magnificent Gothic towers and suspension cables sweeping across the middle distance, the East River alive with traffic below, and the densely packed rooftops of two boroughs stretching to the horizon in every direction. Titled "A High Position," the card plays on the bravado of the ironworker class whose death-defying labor was building the modern American city — a subject that captivated postcard buyers of the era. The Brooklyn Bridge, opened in 1884, remained an icon of engineering wonder and a top-selling postcard subject well into the 1910s. This card was mailed from New York on October 19, 1907 — just one day after a companion card (the Whitehall Building, PC-00890) was mailed to the same recipient, Sophia in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, suggesting the sender was on a New York City trip and enthusiastically sharing views with the folks back home.