Soft linen-era tints wash the grand colonnaded courtyard of the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art in a sunset palette of coral and jade, with tall Florida pines piercing the sky above ranks of classical marble statuary and manicured garden beds — a scene that could easily be mistaken for a Florentine palazzo. Built with circus-fortune millions and opened to the public in 1931, the Ringling Museum became one of Florida's great cultural treasures almost overnight. This card was mailed January 31, 1934, from Bradenton — just three years after the museum opened — by a traveler named Anna, who writes warmly to "Mrs. Herb" in Port Huron, Michigan, noting that she and her mother are on the West Coast of Florida and hoping to hear back soon.