A classic Cape Cod linen postcard glows with the warm palette of mid-century American tourism — a Dutch-style windmill rises behind a shingled cottage amid salt-marsh grasses, small sailboats and rowboats rest at a tidal creek, and a peach-toned panel beside the image spells out CAPE COD in an acrostic verse: "Cape Cod calls you, come and see it / Age and youth here find delight / Pearly sands or peaceful meadow / Earth and sky for all alike…" Young Joan, writing from Barnstable on August 21, 1945 — just days after V-J Day — dashes off a breezy note to her father Harry back in New Castle, Delaware: "Dear Pop, How do you like the looks of Cape Cod? I got this post card at a store. Can't wait till you come down — are Harry and Jack coming down? Lots of Love, Joan." The postmark is Barnstable, Aug 21, 11 AM, 1945, and the stamp is a 1¢ Roosevelt memorial issue (Scott #930), one of the first stamps released after FDR's death that April — a quietly resonant philatelic detail on a card written at the very end of World War II.