Horse-drawn carts jostle with early pedestrians outside Casablanca's grand post office in this hand-colorized card from the Lévy & Neurdein Réunis "LL" series — a scene that perfectly captures the city's rapid transformation under French Protectorate rule in the early 1920s. Architect Adrien Laforgue's Hôtel des Postes, credited directly in the card's caption, married Beaux-Arts structure with Moorish arcade details: the arched ground-floor loggia, terracotta column shafts, and ochre-and-white facade were instantly recognizable to every postal worker and telegram-sender who passed through its doors. The LL series, printed in Paris by Lévy et Neurdein at 44 Rue Letellier, was one of the premier French colonial postcard publishers, their colorization work considered among the finest of the era. A collector's handwritten note on the back — "Morocco" — and penciled "200" hint at a now-dispersed collection assembled perhaps by a traveler named Henri or Marguerite.