Winding up a gentle hill through bare spring trees, a dirt carriage road leads the eye toward the gracious red-brick Lawrence General Hospital — its wide porches catching the pale light of an early Massachusetts morning in this hand-colored Edwardian postcard, postmarked Lawrence around 1910. The sender, writing to a young man named Joe at 20 Voze Street in Dorchester Center, fills the card with warm, slightly breathless news: plans have changed, a visit is in the works, babies are growing, the household is lively. Lawrence General Hospital, established in 1875, was one of the anchor institutions of this great mill city on the Merrimack — and this view, printed by N.E. Paper & Stationery Co. of Ayer, Massachusetts, preserves the campus in its quiet pre-war serenity, long before the dramatic expansions of the mid-20th century. The 1-cent green Franklin stamp and the Lawrence cancellation tie it neatly to the golden age of the postcard craze that swept America between 1905 and 1915.