Dappled summer light filters through towering elms onto the sprawling wraparound screened porch of the Irving House in Dalton, Massachusetts — a genteel Berkshires boarding house of the early automobile age, its white Classical Revival columns and second-floor balcony framing a scene of Edwardian leisure, while a handsome open touring car parked at the curb dates the image squarely to around 1912–1918. Dalton, home to the Crane Paper Company (makers of U.S. currency paper since 1879), was a prosperous mill town tucked into the Housatonic Valley, and establishments like the Irving House catered to summer visitors and business travelers. Published by C.R. Silvernail of Dalton and printed by the Albertype Company of Brooklyn — one of America's finest postcard printers — this hand-colored card was never mailed, preserving its rich tones in pristine condition.