A plump black bear clings halfway up a rust-red pine trunk in Yellowstone, its round face turned toward the camera with the lazy confidence of an animal that has learned tourists mean food — a behavioral reality the card's own printed caption acknowledges with charming candor, noting the bear "often sleeps on slender limbs that barely support him." Published by the legendary Haynes Inc. of Yellowstone, the linen-textured card was postmarked at the Old Faithful Station on July 8, 1926, and addressed to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Cohen, McDonald — the sender, whose name appears to begin with initials, writes with breathless excitement about having actually encountered this bear and whether one could "blame the bear" for its behavior, filling every margin with cramped pencil script. A 1-cent Ben Franklin green stamp (Scott #552) franks the card.