Bold yellow sunshine pours off this large-letter linen "Souvenir from Havana" card, each massive letter filled with vignettes of pre-revolutionary Cuba — the Capitol dome, the Gran Casino Nacional, the broad Prado boulevard, the Cathedral, and the busy harbor — a dazzling snapshot of Havana at its glamorous wartime peak. The reverse tells an even richer story: sent by a traveler named Henry to a Mrs. Harry (surname withheld) in New Castle, Delaware, the card is franked with two Cuban ½¢ Victoria stamps (a WWII patriotic series) and bears a crisp U.S. Censorship "Examined by" oval, examiner number V7376. Henry dashes off a breezy note: "Leaving here Friday for N.O. Everything okay except bad sunburn and sea-sickness troubles. Henry." The censor's stamp, wartime Cuban Victory stamps, and the nonchalant tone of a sun-scorched traveler combine to make this a wonderfully evocative WWII-era document.