Bathed in hand-applied color, the weathered stone façade of the San Carlos Mission at Monterey rises against a pale California sky — its twin bell towers and distinctive star window among the most photographed landmarks on the California coast in the early 1900s. Published by the premier West Coast postcard house of the era, this undivided-back card (UDB) pre-dates the 1907 postal regulation change, placing it firmly in the earliest golden age of American postcards. The card was never mailed and carries no message, leaving it pristine for collectors who prize the vivid chromolithographic coloring that Edward H. Mitchell's San Francisco shop was renowned for — rich terracotta roof tiles, a luminous sky gradient, and the deep greens of the Monterey cypress beside the chapel wall.