From the heights above a crystalline Adirondack lake, the gracious bulk of the Stevens House hotel commands a broad green hillside above Mirror Lake in Lake Placid, New York — its long white verandas and Victorian towers embodying the golden age of Adirondack resort culture — in this hand-colored Santway Photo-Craft card mailed in 1915 to a Mrs. Lewis K. Prince at 2239 Penn Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The sender, writing in a lively cursive on every available inch of the reverse, describes what sounds like a thoroughly enjoyable summer holiday — references to "the hotel," "Adirondacks," and a mention of possibly staying through August suggest a proper season's sojourn of the kind that only the comfortable classes could afford in the years just before the United States entered the Great War. The Stevens House itself, one of the Adirondacks' grandest old hotels, would eventually be lost — making this card a document of a vanished landmark.