Towering columns of dark basalt rise from a grassy quarry floor in this hand-colored Austro-Hungarian era view of the "Herrenhaus" (Manor House) rock formation near Steinschönau, Bohemia — a geological curiosity whose organ-pipe columns of cooled volcanic lava drew tourists and artists alike to this corner of northern Bohemia in the early 1900s. The card traveled across the Atlantic in October 1908, sent by a friend back home to Hans, a Kunstmaler (fine-arts painter) living first at 527 N. Olden Ave., Trenton, New Jersey, then rerouted to 520 Clinton Ave., Hoboken, NJ — a vivid snapshot of the immigrant artist community of the era. The writer, signing off warmly on behalf of the Piesche family, mentions spending two years in Steinschönau studying painting and finding the work quite difficult, but rewarding.