Rising from a bed of flowering shrubs, the rugged Romanesque Revival stone tower of the Congregational Church in Dalton, Massachusetts dominates this evocative pre-linen view — the conical slate spire capped with an iron star finial, arched belfry openings framing shadow and light, and a broad gabled nave stretching back toward the Berkshire hills. Dalton, a small Berkshire County mill town whose fortunes were long tied to Crane & Co. paper manufacture, supported this handsome granite church as a civic centerpiece; the Romanesque Revival style, popularized by H.H. Richardson in the 1880s, filtered down to hundreds of New England congregations by the turn of the century. Published by George M. Daly of the Irving House, Dalton's local hotel and stationery shop, and printed by the prestigious Albertype Company of Brooklyn — whose collotype process was considered the finest photomechanical reproduction available — this unused card is a crisp document of small-town Berkshire pride.