A hand-colored halftone view transports you straight to Edwardian-era Southern California, where the Tubbs family residence in Santa Ana commands its corner lot with all the bravado of Mission Revival architecture — red clay tile roofs, white stucco gables with their sinuous curves, a small belltower crowned with a cross finial, and a gracious columned porch framed by young palms and flowering gardens behind a low stone retaining wall. Mailed on a warm July afternoon in 1911, the card carries a chatty note from a traveler — signing off with the initial "A" — who writes to a woman named Edith up in Plumas County, mentioning a stop with "Mother Tubbs" and a Mr. Barrette, reporting that Santa Ana is "a very nice town" and that the writer is en route to Los Angeles that very day. The Tubbs name was prominent in late-19th-century Orange County, and this residential postcard is a rare documentary glimpse into the social and architectural fabric of early Santa Ana. Published by Edward H. Mitchell of San Francisco, one of California's most prolific postcard houses, with his characteristic rich color work and catalog numbering system.