Boston's South Terminal Station — now South Station — commands the frame in this richly hand-colored 1914 divided-back card, its grand Beaux-Arts colonnade of paired pilasters rising above a bustling forecourt where automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles share the cobbles in uneasy coexistence, while an elevated railway platform curves away in the foreground like a steel river. Opened in 1899 as the largest railroad station in the world at that time, South Terminal was a colossus of the Gilded Age, funneling hundreds of thousands of passengers through its trainshed daily. The card was mailed on September 30, 1914 — just weeks after the outbreak of World War I — addressed to a woman named Martha in Santa Clara, California, with a message crowded into every margin, the cursive hand urgent and intimate across thousands of miles. Published by Mason Bros. & Co. of Boston, this card is a vivid time capsule of America's railway golden age.