Dozens of brass-era open-touring cars and early closed automobiles crowd the summit parking area at Whitcomb Summit on the Mohawk Trail in western Massachusetts, while visitors climb a dramatic steel lattice observation tower against a sunset-gradient sky — a thrilling snapshot of America's earliest motoring tourism, captured in vivid hand-tinted color around 1920. The Mohawk Trail, opened as an automobile road in 1914, was the nation's first designated scenic tourist highway, and Whitcomb Summit at 2,173 feet was its most celebrated viewpoint, drawing crowds from across New England every summer weekend. The reverse carries a lengthy printed description of the Mohawk Trail's Native American history, noting it as the former hunting ground of the Mohawk Indians. Published by Tichnor Bros., Cambridge, MA, and printed by their "Quality Views" process. The undivided address side and "Domestic One Cent / Foreign Two Cents" postage notice suggest an early Tichnor printing, c.1918–1925. Unused.