Bathed in the warm buff and terracotta palette of the linen era, this striking view of the New Post Office Department Building in Washington, D.C. captures the monument to federal ambition that opened in 1934 — its neoclassical limestone colonnade still fresh, two American flags snapping in a painted breeze, and a handful of streamlined 1930s automobiles gliding past on Pennsylvania Avenue. The building, designed by the firm Delano & Aldrich, replaced earlier scattered postal facilities and stood as a symbol of the New Deal's faith in government efficiency. Produced by Curteich of Chicago under their "C.T. Art-Colortone" process and distributed by B.S. Reynolds Co. of Washington, the card's linen texture and vivid color are in fine form. The back is clean and completely unused, with a "Place One Cent Stamp Here" box — pinning this to the 1928–1952 window when domestic postcard rate was one cent.