Sent from Genoa in May 1948 — just three years after the guns of World War II fell silent in Italy — this genuine real-photo postcard shows the serene Romanesque cloister of Sant'Andrea, its elegant twin columns and rounded arches casting deep afternoon shadows across a garden courtyard where a stone basin catches the Mediterranean light, a breath of medieval peace amid a city still rebuilding from wartime devastation. Ann and Arnold mailed this keepsake to a friend named Daniel in New Haven, Connecticut, their brief handwritten message — "Regards, Ann & Arnold" — a warm postwar salutation across the Atlantic. The postcard bears an Italian Republic 2 Lire "Democratica" stamp (the iconic torch-bearing woman designed by Corrado Mochi), cancelled at Genova, 21 May 1948. A second personal snapshot of the same cloister (PC-02505_02) taken from a different angle suggests Ann and Arnold visited the site themselves, perhaps on a European tour in the hopeful summer of postwar reconstruction.