Twin copper-green domes crown the imposing granite Beaux-Arts post office in Lynn, Massachusetts, photographed from a dramatic corner angle that showcases the building's arched ground-floor windows and broad stone steps — a few small figures paused at the entrance lending human scale to the civic grandeur. Lynn, a city built on the shoe industry, constructed this federal post office around the turn of the twentieth century as a statement of permanence and prosperity. Published by Reichner Bros. of Boston, Munich, and Leipzig and printed in Germany, the card exemplifies the high quality of pre-WWI German chromolithography that dominated the American postcard market. Mailed May 15, 1908, it carries a one-cent Franklin stamp and travels from Lynn to Mrs. H.B. in New London, New Hampshire. The writer — apparently a friend named something like "Bette" — reports gladly receiving a letter, mentions Sunday headaches, and promises more news soon; the small domestic drama of Edwardian correspondence preserved for over a century.