A clock tower rises over the graceful white arched arcade of the Alfândega (customs house) in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores — this evocative pre-linen black-and-white real-photo-style postcard captures the port city's waterfront promenade at its Edwardian peak, tram rails gleaming in the cobblestone street below. The arcaded ground floor of the customs building reflects the Manueline-influenced architecture unique to the Azores, and a lone pedestrian in white strolls past what the sender — apparently a traveler in transit — has annotated on the reverse as the "Arcade Bldg." The back of this unposted card reveals a fascinating handwritten itinerary: distances in days from Ponta Delgada to Madeira (2 days), Lisbon (3 days), Algiers (5 days), New York (6–7 days), and Naples, Italy (9 days), suggesting the card was acquired aboard a transatlantic steamship route or at the port itself, serving as a personal navigation memo for an Edwardian-era world traveler passing through one of the Atlantic's great mid-ocean waypoints.