A writer named only by her cursive hand — let's call her the Worcester correspondent — sent this lively white-era view of Union Station to Ida in San Francisco, filling every margin with looping script about a visit to friends and parents in Worcester; the station itself, its broad Beaux-Arts façade lined with period automobiles from the late 1920s, stands as a monument to the American rail age just before the Depression would begin to hollow it out. Opened in 1911 and designed by the firm of Watson & Huckel in a muscular Neoclassical style, Worcester's Union Station was the hub of New England rail travel; this card captures it with a warm orange-tan sky and a forecourt full of open-topped touring cars and early closed sedans that place the image squarely in the mid-to-late 1920s. Published by J. I. Williams of Worcester and bearing catalogue number 128415, the card was mailed with a green 1-cent Franklin stamp (Scott #552) and postmarked Worcester, Massachusetts, with the distinctive blue promotional slogan cancel "Write It On Your Heart — Excel." The message, though cramped, speaks warmly of family visits and friends around Worcester, signed with an affectionate closing.