Glowing against a technicolor New England sunset, the soaring granite tower of the Massachusetts War Memorial atop Mount Greylock — the state's highest peak at 3,505 feet — stands sentinel over a linen-era landscape of spruce and fir, its distinctive lighthouse-like silhouette topped with a luminous globe that was lit to honor fallen veterans from the Commonwealth. Built in 1932 and dedicated to Massachusetts soldiers lost in World War I, the beacon became a beloved Berkshires landmark visited by generations of hikers and road-trippers who drove the summit auto road to take in views stretching across five states — and to buy a postcard just like this one. Printed by Curteich of Chicago for local distributor C.W. Hughes & Co. of Mechanicville, N.Y., this classic linen-era card bears a 1-cent Washington stamp, unused as a mailing piece but philatelically prepared, a snapshot of mid-century American mountain tourism.