Bathed in the rosy warmth of a linen-era Mississippi sky, the handsome red-brick campus of All Saints College at Vicksburg sits atop a green bluff in this vivid colored postcard that radiates the optimism of a small Episcopal girls' school between the wars — a vintage Model T-era automobile winding up the curved drive provides an unintentional date stamp, while cousins Mari and Alton penned an affectionate note on the back to young Mercedes, then living in Girard, Ohio, telling her they were sorry to have missed her "while in Ohio" and thought she'd enjoy this card of their Mississippi home, sent just before Christmas 1930. The 1-cent green Benjamin Franklin stamp (Scott #552) is sound and tied by a Vicksburg, Miss. Dec. 10, 1930, 3:30 PM machine cancel, and the card was manufactured by the E.C. Kropp Co. of Milwaukee, a leading linen-era publisher. All Saints College closed in 1994 after more than a century of operation, making institutional views like this a poignant collector keepsake.