Drenched in the golden calm of a New England summer, this 1939 linen postcard shows The Tavern in Gloucester, Massachusetts — a gracious gambrel-roofed white building perched at the harbor's edge with the Atlantic shimmering behind it. Sent on June 14, 1939, by a traveler named Hattie to her friend Eva in Port Huron, Michigan, the message bubbles with holiday energy: she dined that day "in full view of the Atlantic Ocean" and was Boston-bound the next morning, promising to be home "next week." The 1-cent Washington stamp — a humble coin of the Depression era — carried this little window into Hattie's seaside joy from Cambridge, Massachusetts, postmarked June 15, 1939 at 6 PM. The Tavern was a well-known Gloucester social institution of the period, its harbor-view setting making it a magnet for summer visitors drawn to Cape Ann's storied fishing and arts community.