Worcester's million-dollar crown jewel stares boldly down the avenue in this hand-colored Edwardian postcard — the Boston & Albany Station's twin Baroque Revival towers soaring above arched colonnades while horse-drawn carriages and early street lamps populate the foreground, a city on the cusp of the automobile age. Mailed on a crisp November day in 1911, the card carries a warm, chatty message from a sender who signs herself with initials, urging a friend named Ellen (addressed as "Mrs. E. C. Kim—" at 277 Webster Ave., New Rochelle, N.Y.) to write more often and mentioning that the grand building pictured is "our new million dollar station." The B&A Station, designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and opened in 1911, was indeed celebrated as one of New England's finest railway terminals, and this card was likely purchased within weeks of the station's opening. The green Franklin stamp is cleanly struck by the Worcester, Mass. machine cancel dated NOV 20, 11 AM, 1911 — a lovely single-day snapshot of Edwardian postal life.