A veil of white water cascades over the layered shale ledges of Lower Kaaterskill Falls — at 85 feet one of New York State's most celebrated cataracts — framed by lush summer ferns and mossy outcroppings in a luminous hand-tinted color print that captures why Hudson River School painters returned here again and again. Kaaterskill Falls drew nineteenth-century romantics like Thomas Cole and Asher Durand, and by 1906 it remained the crown jewel of Catskill Mountain tourism. The message on the face is sublimely brief: "Having a good time — Bill." The South Cairo, N.Y. postmark dates the mailing to August 1906, and the 1¢ Franklin green stamp on the undivided-back card anchors it firmly in the golden Edwardian postcard era. Published by the Illustrated Postal Card Co. of New York-Leipzig, the printing quality reflects the German chromolithographic craftsmanship that dominated American scenic cards of the period.