From high above the leafy northeast Washington skyline, the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception commands the frame in this vivid chrome-era aerial postcard — its gilded mosaic dome blazing blue and gold against a summer-green campus, the soaring Knights' Tower piercing the sky at 329 feet, and the red-tiled nave roof drawing the eye down to the monumental Romanesque-Byzantine entrance portal below. Completed in stages from 1920 through 1959, the Shrine is the largest Catholic church in the United States and one of the largest in the world, and this chrome aerial view — distributed by L.B. Prince Co. of Fairfax, Virginia, and printed by Prince Lithograph Co. — captures it in its newly completed glory, the parking lots still populated by the tail-finned automobiles of the early 1960s. The back carries a handwritten price notation ("EL / 1—") suggesting dealer or gift-shop inventory use.