Framed by the bare winter silhouette of a eucalyptus branch and the dark mass of Marin headlands, the Golden Gate Bridge stretches across a glassy San Francisco Bay in a crisp black-and-white photographic print — the towers still carrying their distinctive X-brace cross-members that would later be modified, making this a rare early documentation of the bridge in its original as-built form. Completed and opened in May 1937 at a cost of $35,000,000, the bridge was at the time the world's longest suspension bridge at 4,200 feet between towers, a fact proudly printed on the card's reverse alongside the claim of 740-foot towers and a 220-foot vertical clearance at high tide. Published by The Printing Corp. of San Francisco, this unused card called for a one-cent stamp — placing it squarely in the bridge's inaugural year or shortly after, when souvenir cards flooded West Coast shops. The restrained, almost painterly composition has an understated elegance that distinguishes it from the more garish linen-era competitors of the same subject.