Sent from Mexico City in the summer of 1904, this vivid color-lithograph postcard by J. Granat shows the Metropolitan Cathedral from across the broad Zócalo plaza, with a horse-drawn streetcar on its tracks and clusters of strolling figures lending a lively Porfiriato-era street scene to the composition. Trees in full leaf soften the cathedral's twin towers and dome, and the warm palette of terracotta, sage, and powder blue gives the scene an almost painterly quality. A Mexican two-centavo Eagle stamp (red-orange) carries the card from Mexico City to Mr. L. H. W— in Castile, New York, arriving September 2, 1904 at 7 PM, as recorded by the crisp Castile, N.Y. RECD. circular cancel. The reverse is a Union Postale Universelle undivided-back format printed in three languages; a handwritten message in red ink runs vertically along the front right margin — a charming period habit when the rules forbade writing on the address side. Published by J. Granat, México, a documented Mexico City stationery and postcard publisher active in the early 1900s.