A mother's wistful wish echoes across a century on this warmly tinted 1913 postcard of Sage College at Cornell University — she visited Ithaca, saw the grand Victorian Gothic dormitory with its soaring brick tower, and wrote to her daughter: "Was in Sage College and it is very nice. I wish I was a girl and could come here. Work hard for it and come." Sage College, completed in 1875 and funded by Henry Williams Sage, was Cornell's pioneering residence hall for women — one of the first at any major American university — making this card a quiet document of early women's higher education. The image shows the red-brick building draped in ivy, its Flemish-Gothic spire catching a rosy sunset sky, with lawn sweeping toward the foreground. Postmarked Ithaca, NY, September 5, 1913, and addressed to Gertrude in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Published with a "Famous Superior Quality" imprint, catalog no. 212185.