Fishermen pole their broad-beamed Ligurian working boats across the glassy harbor of Rapallo, the medieval Castello sul Mare standing sentinel at left, its rough stone tower rising above a waterfront of tall shuttered houses draped with drying laundry — a snapshot of the Italian Riviera di Levante in the mid-1920s, when Rapallo was becoming a magnet for artists, writers, and the European intelligentsia (Ezra Pound had settled here just a few years earlier). This evocative rotogravure card (no. 216, published by Civicchioni of Chiavari) was posted from Rapallo on 27 March 1925 and sent to "Fräulein Elsa" in Dresden-Sachsen at Sünterbachhofstr. 25 — a young German woman, perhaps a former visitor longing for the Ligurian sun. The message, written in German, mentions returning, the beautiful mornings, and warm personal regards.