The grand ochre facade of the Palacio del Ayuntamiento — Mexico City's Municipal Palace — fills this warm-toned color lithograph postcard, its twin baroque towers flying banners above a bustling zócalo scene of horse-drawn streetcars and pedestrians rendered in the slightly impressionistic style of early Mexican color printing, the whole composition humming with the ordered civic energy of a capital city between revolution and modernity. Published by the well-regarded F. Martín of Mexico City and sent in 1934 to Henry in New Market, Virginia, the back is densely covered in fluid Spanish cursive — a long and intimate letter from a traveler or expatriate, filling every available inch of the message space. The red 4-centavo Mexican stamp commemorates the 1910–1934 anniversary of the Revolution, adding a quietly political layer to what is otherwise a handsome civic architecture card. The Palacio del Ayuntamiento still stands on the Zócalo today, though the building depicted here reflects its pre-1948 restoration appearance.