Rolling green lawns, a rocky New England stream tumbling over rounded stones, and a stately red-brick Victorian mansion on the hill — this gorgeous early Phostint card from the Detroit Publishing Company captures Dalton, Massachusetts as seen from the train window, spotlighting the estate of Senator W. Murray Crane and the very mill where paper for U.S. currency was manufactured. Crane & Co., founded in 1801 and still producing U.S. banknote paper today, made Dalton famous far beyond its Berkshire Hills setting; postcards boasting of the connection were local bestsellers. The card reads on the front: "The Home of Senator Crane and where he manufactures paper for U.S. Money." The undivided back (no message/address division) dates this card to the pre-1907 UDB era, and the Detroit Publishing "Phostint" color photolithography process gives it its characteristic jewel-tone palette. Unused and clean, this is a sharp example of Gilded Age American industrialist pride captured on cardboard.