Horse-drawn carriages wait at the curb beneath a rosy twilight sky as the grand Romanesque Revival Union Depot of Springfield, Massachusetts commands the frame — its broad hip-roofed train shed, red-brick clock tower, arched tunnel entrance, and decorative gables rendered in warm lithographic color that flatters the station's considerable architectural ambitions. Springfield's Union Station (opened 1889, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson's successor firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge) was a major interchange on the Boston & Albany and Connecticut River lines, funneling passengers from New England to New York; the building would be demolished in 1926 and replaced, making pre-demolition views like this historically significant. Addressed to A. Betterley of Winchendon, Massachusetts, the card bears no written message — it appears to have been sent as a pure souvenir, postmarked in 1906 with a machine cancel, and received at Winchendon with a circular date stamp also dated 1906.