A parking lot full of Model T's and early closed-body sedans crowds the summit plateau of Whitcomb Hill on Massachusetts' celebrated Mohawk Trail, the country's first designated scenic highway, where a skeletal steel fire-observation tower and a snapping forty-eight-star flag mark one of the finest westward views in New England. The auto-tourist era is in full, joyful swing here — perhaps a dozen vehicles of the mid-1920s vintage ring the gravel loop while a lone figure stands at the center, dwarfed by the landscape. The Mohawk Trail had been paved since 1914 and was drawing hundreds of thousands of motorists annually by the 1920s, spawning a cottage industry of souvenir stands, motor lodges, and precisely this kind of promotional postcard. Published by C.W. Hughes & Co. of Mechanicville, N.Y. and printed by Curteich using their "C.T. American Art Colored" process, the card's linen texture and saturated hues are quintessential of the White Border–to–early-linen transitional era.