American flags drape the entrance of the grand ten-story Stacy-Trent Hotel in this richly colored 1941 linen postcard — vintage automobiles line the brick-and-limestone facade just weeks after the "Buy Defense Savings Bonds" slogan was stamped across wartime mail. The hotel, named for Trenton's twin founders Mahlon Stacy and William Trent, billed itself as "headquarters for those who desire the best in hotel service," and the card's back carries a charming period map tracing Washington's Continental Army march to Trenton on December 25, 1776. A sender named Mattie dashed off a breezy note — "Those Jones, off again, such a family" — to a recipient in Briarcliff Manor, New York, capturing the easy wartime small-talk of October 11, 1941, just two months before Pearl Harbor.