Stately and symmetrical, the red-brick Ellis Hospital rises above a broad lawn in Schenectady, New York — its twin corner pavilions flanking a central entrance portico in this warm chromolithograph that preserves the institution as it appeared in the early electric age, when General Electric's nearby factories were drawing workers by the thousands and straining the city's medical infrastructure. Ellis Hospital was founded in 1895 through a bequest from industrialist John Ellis and grew quickly alongside Schenectady's booming industrial economy; this card, printed in Germany and bearing the Pioneer-era divided-back format with one-cent domestic postage, documents the original building before decades of expansion transformed the campus. The bold red brick, copper-toned cupolas, and tidy grounds project civic confidence and institutional pride typical of Edwardian-era hospital postcards.