A lone early automobile — almost certainly a Model T Ford — winds along the freshly carved Mohawk Trail through the towering pines of the Berkshire Hills, a scene that must have felt thrillingly modern to postcard buyers just a few years after the road's formal opening on October 27, 1914. Built at a cost of $368,000 and designed to connect Boston to New York and the West, the Mohawk Trail was one of America's first designated scenic highways, opening the previously inaccessible Berkshire grades to the growing class of motoring tourists. This hand-colored card by Tichnor Bros. of Boston captures that heady early era of automobile tourism — the road hugging the hillside, guardrails modest against the drop, the forest primeval on either side. Never mailed, it remains a crisp artifact of the open-road romance that defined 1920s American leisure.