Mailed on a September evening in 1912, this vivid Amrichrome color-lithograph captures the White House's north portico in warm, idealized tones — the columned portico rising above a manicured lawn where a stone-rimmed fountain sprays gracefully, bicycles propped casually against the iron fence to the left hinting at the era's quieter pace. Published by The Albany News Company of Albany, NY (with Leipzig and Berlin printing connections), the card traveled from Washington, D.C., to a Miss Alice in Poolesville, Maryland, sent simply and affectionately by a "Tina" — a tiny domestic vignette from the Taft administration's final year, when the White House grounds still felt accessible and almost neighborly. The 1-cent Benjamin Franklin green stamp is cleanly cancelled with a Washington D.C. machine cancel dated September 3, 1912, 9:30 PM.