Just weeks after the nation's grief had barely begun to lift, someone thought to send a colorized postcard of the Milburn Residence in Buffalo, New York — the handsome ivy-draped Victorian home where President William McKinley drew his last breath on September 14, 1901, eight days after being shot at the Pan-American Exposition — and the card's printed caption makes no attempt at subtlety, spelling out the tragedy plainly in red script across the image itself, a haunting document of early American postcard culture's unsentimental appetite for sites of national mourning. The card was postmarked in Buffalo on October 3, 1901 — less than three weeks after McKinley died — and sent to a young woman named Sophia in McConnellsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania, with a brief message from the sender identifying themselves only as a cousin. The handsome red-brick Queen Anne house at 1168 Delaware Avenue belonged to John Milburn, president of the Pan-American Exposition, and it became one of the most photographed buildings in America in the autumn of 1901, with publishers rushing cards to market while public interest was at its peak. Published by Adam, Meldrum & Anderson Co. of Buffalo with German printing in Chemnitz, this is a genuine piece of American political history mailed within weeks of the assassination.