The swift-running River Dee spills over its rocky weir below the historic walls of Chester, England, in this atmospheric 1903 real-photo-style collotype card by C.W. Faulkner & Co. of London — flat-bottomed punts ride at anchor near the far bank, a stone mill building looms above the water, and the famous Chester Suspension Bridge is just visible in the misty middle distance. The card was mailed from Liverpool in May 1903 — stamped with two King Edward VII half-penny stamps for the overseas rate — and sent all the way to a "Langston" in Kansas City, Missouri, arriving with a Kansas City Ast. R.K.C. railway post office cancel dated May 29, 1903. The brief message on the face reads warmly: "May 11/03 my dear [Bess?] — Will we sail soon in [line/lieu] of — and ready to sail — [?] not to hire."