Golden crepuscular rays burst through a cathedral of clouds above the Hudson River Valley in this luminous linen-era panorama viewed from the summit of Mt. Beacon, Beacon, New York — a scene so theatrically beautiful it reads almost as a religious painting rendered in printer's ink. The Hudson snakes through an emerald patchwork of farms and woodland far below, and a winding country road traces the foreground in warm afternoon light. Mt. Beacon, rising 1,540 feet above the river, was served by one of the longest incline railways in the world (opened 1902, destroyed by fire 1983), making its summit a popular tourist destination throughout the linen era. Published by R.T. Van Tine of Beacon, N.Y. and printed by the Curt Teich Company of Chicago under their "C.T. American Art" process — the gold standard of linen postcard lithography — this card is bright, clean, and unused, a fine example of mid-century Americana.