Dappled summer light filters through a cathedral canopy of mature elms along Genesee Street at Hobart in Utica, New York — one of the city's most desirable residential corridors in 1910 — where a line of handsome Romanesque Revival brownstone apartment blocks stretches toward the vanishing point and an early horseless carriage, barely more than a black smudge at curbside, marks the dawning of the automobile age. Mailed August 30, 1910 from Utica and densely written on both sides of the correspondence panel (and overflowing onto the image margin), this card from an unnamed sender to Miss Abbie in Rome, Oneida County, is a wonderful period social document — the sender urgently filling every inch of available space, closing with a bold underlined "write."