Dappled summer light filters through tall hardwoods lining Fillmore Avenue at Silver Lake, Wyoming County, New York — a charming tree-canopied lane of Victorian-era lakeside cottages with wrap-around porches leads the eye down to a glittering glimpse of the lake beyond. Silver Lake was a beloved resort community for western New York families, and this colorful pre-linen card, postmarked August 7, 1914 — just days after the outbreak of World War I in Europe — captures a world on the cusp of enormous change. The sender writes to inform Mr. and Mrs. Jones in Eden, Erie County: "Just to let you know… your neighbor has a boy and she thought it time… Friday Aug 7, 1914." — a lovely personal announcement of a birth tucked into an idyllic lakeside scene. Mailed with a 1-cent Washington stamp from Silver Lake, N.Y.