The Milwaukee River glides between canyon walls of Gilded Age brick and early skyscraper steel in this richly tinted linen-era view looking south from the Wells Street Bridge — the Pabst Building's copper-green cupola presides over the mid-ground while streetcars and pedestrians animate the canyon below, a snapshot of a great industrial city at the height of its commercial confidence. Published by E.C. Kropp of Milwaukee, America's premier postcard house of the era, this card was mailed September 3, 1933 — the very summer of Chicago's "Century of Progress" World's Fair, and the writer, Mrs. Philip, tells recipient Mrs. Stringer of Port Huron, Michigan that she found the Fair "very nice" and "beautiful" and will be home the following week.