Lush and luminous in hand-tinted white-border style, this 1918 postcard captures the beloved fountain at Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio — a cascading rocky grotto surrounded by manicured flower beds and tropical-looking foliage, with the solid Beaux-Arts façades of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and surrounding commercial buildings rising serenely behind it. Cleveland's Public Square was the civic heart of the city, and this fountain — long since gone — was one of its most photographed features in the early 20th century. The card was mailed October 31, 1918, just eleven days before the Armistice ended World War I, making it a quiet domestic artifact from one of history's most charged moments. Mollie writes to her friend Jennie (Mrs. Will, at an address in Port Huron, Michigan): "Got in Cleveland Tuesday night. Nina and the children are well. Mrs. Sroll is taking care of the house, will write when I get back." A small, human note against a vast historical backdrop.