Rows of brilliant red strawberries stretch toward a wall of Spanish-moss-draped Florida pines in this vivid linen-era postcard from Plant City — "Winter Strawberry Capital of the World" — where pickers bent double in the warm January sun were as much a symbol of Florida agriculture as orange groves ever were. Printed in the saturated palette of Curteich's C.T. Art-Colortone process, the card number 9A-H91 places it firmly in the early 1950s linen run. On the reverse, Shirley and Clayton dash off a quick note to their family in Java Village, New York — "Dear Folks, Expect to be home around [the] started down just Wed but it was pretty bad driving" — a snapshot of a postwar road trip south, postmarked Lakeland, Florida, January 2, 1951, with a 1-cent George Washington definitive affixed.