Sent on a lazy August day in 1906, this evocative undivided-back view of Margaretville Mountain carries a charmingly self-deprecating message from a woman named Sophia to her friend Lulu: "I am positively too lazy to write a letter but want you to know that I am still among the living." The black-and-white photographic image — printed in Germany for Barton & Spooner of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York — sweeps across an open valley with the rolling Catskill hillside beyond, the fairgrounds spread across the foreground plateau in early-spring bareness. A crisp one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp (Scott #300 series) carries the card from Margaretville, NY through to Brooklyn, with both the Margaretville and Brooklyn postmarks clearly struck on August 9 and 10, 1906 respectively. Addressed to Mrs. Max Bethge at 1226 Park Place, Brooklyn, this small card threads together the rural Catskills and the immigrant Brooklyn neighborhoods of the Edwardian era.