A graceful concrete spillway curves like a pale crescent moon over the blue waters of the Scioto River in this richly coloured linen-era postcard of the Columbus, Ohio storage dam — lush lawns, red-roofed houses, and distant purple hills completing a scene that feels more Arcadian idyll than urban infrastructure. Published by W.E. Ayres of Columbus and printed by the legendary Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago (series 2A-H750), this card was postmarked Columbus, Ohio on July 2, 1936, and addressed to Mr. Lox Stringer at 601 14th Street, Port Huron, Michigan — sent by someone who signed only "Minnie," with a brief, affectionate message. A 1¢ green stamp (likely a US Presidential or Rotary Press definitive of the era) carried the card in the depths of the Great Depression. The Scioto River dams were a civic engineering response to devastating floods; this card documents a moment of New Deal–era pride in public works.