Waves crash against the rugged granite headland at Midway Point as a lone figure — perhaps a early automobile tourist named something like Edna or Walter — stands dwarfed beneath a massive Monterey cypress on the famous 17 Mile Drive, that storied private toll road through the Del Monte Forest that had already become a fashionable excursion for Gilded Age visitors arriving by rail at the Hotel Del Monte. This black-and-white real-photo-style printed postcard, catalog number 2864, captures the wild, wind-sculpted coastline of the Monterey Peninsula in California at a moment when the scenic drive was still a novelty, predating the great Pebble Beach resort era; the composition — deep shadow under the cypress canopy giving way to foaming surf and a hazy mountain silhouette across Stillwater Cove — exemplifies the dramatic landscape photography that made these souvenir cards enormously popular with Edwardian tourists. The undivided back format and the single-column address layout with decorative script "Post Card" header and an unprinted stamp box firmly date this card to the Undivided Back era (pre-1907), making it among the earliest postcard documentation of what is now one of the most photographed stretches of coastline in North America.