The New York State Capitol rises in wintry grandeur above bare-branched trees in this warm-toned lithographic souvenir card from 1908 — its massive Richardsonian Romanesque and Renaissance Revival stonework glowing amber against a peachy dusk sky, twin flags flying from the pinnacled towers of a building that took thirty-two years and $25 million to complete (1871–1899) and remains one of the most architecturally complex state capitols in the nation. This view, looking from the south, captures the great staircase approach and the rhythmic arched windows of the upper stories in fine detail, the dormers and chimneys silhouetted against a chromolithographic sky that speaks to the height of the "golden age" postcard era. Mailed from Albany on May 6, 1908, the card was sent to Miss Sophia Hohman of McConnelsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania — a pleasant cross-state correspondence typical of the era's postcard craze, in which millions of Americans collected and exchanged view cards as casually as social media posts today.