Tall elms filter the afternoon light across the white clapboard facade of the First Congregational Church in Lee, Massachusetts — a summer scene rendered in the luminous, saturated palette of a Curt Teich linen card, code 8A-H173. Lee, tucked into the southern Berkshires near Stockbridge, was a favorite summer-touring destination, and this card carries the warmth of a road trip: the sender, who signs only as "Deryl," dashed off a note to a friend named Al — "We had a nice ride up here, Arlene enjoyed it she sat between us. Sorry I blew my top, will see you later." The card was addressed to a Mrs. Albertina Evans at 73 Capitol St., Watertown, Massachusetts, and bears a Lee, Mass. machine cancel dated 1944, during the height of World War II — a time when such small domestic pleasures carried special poignance. Published jointly by C.W. Hughes & Co. of Mechanicville, NY and Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, this is a beautifully human artifact of mid-century New England life.