Perched grandly on a rolling green hill above Millcreek Boulevard near the famed Country Club Plaza, St. Luke's Hospital glows in warm brick-red and cream in this linen-era postcard — a proud civic portrait of what the printed caption calls "truly one of Kansas City's finest hospitals," founded in 1882 with 375 beds. Postmarked Kansas City, Missouri, January 10, 1949, the card was sent to a young woman named Helen at 4125 Westminster Place, St. Louis, with a message that winds across the entire back in close cursive, touching on a dance, plans to come to St. Louis, and references to someone named Phil — a vivid intimate window into postwar Midwestern social life. The card was distributed by Kansas City News Distributors and printed with card no. 10,040; a 1-cent Washington green stamp is affixed and machine-cancelled.