A golden dome crowns this handsome red-brick Carnegie library in Eureka, California — one of over 2,500 libraries funded by the steel magnate's philanthropic crusade, and among the finest examples of Beaux-Arts civic architecture on the North Coast. The colorized lithograph captures the building in its full early glory: Corinthian columns flanking a grand entrance portico, keystoned arched windows marching along the facade, and a luminous copper-toned rotunda catching the California sun. Eureka's Carnegie branch opened in 1904 and served Humboldt County readers for decades before being repurposed. The card carries publisher number 536 and was printed by Edwin H. Mitchell of San Francisco, a prolific early California postcard house active during the "Golden Age" of postcards (1900–1915). The undivided back — with its domestic one-cent / foreign two-cent rate notice and the instruction that the address side is for address only — firmly dates this card to the pre-1907 era, when correspondence had to be crammed onto the image side.