Bathed in soft Edwardian pastels, this 1908 tinted photographic postcard of the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, New York, captures a leisurely Sunday-afternoon world of promenading figures, manicured paths, and the elegant Calvert Vaux-designed staircase — all before the age of automobiles changed the park's rhythms forever. Published in Germany (as was the majority of American postcards in the pre-WWI "Golden Age"), the card is labelled "A 501, Terrace Central Park — New York" and bears a note in a slanted hand along the left edge: "To my best fellow from Frances" (or similar). It was mailed from New York, NY on March 7 PM, 1908, addressed to Mrs. H. Deane of Branchville, Connecticut, care of J. B. Fillon, bearing a green one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp. The Bethesda Terrace and Fountain remain among the most beloved landmarks in American urban landscape design, and views of this era — when the park was still largely the province of pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages — are eagerly sought by New York ephemera collectors.