A broad, palm-lined avenue sweeps through the lush grounds of the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers near Santa Monica, California — its eclectic Victorian cottages, red-roofed dormitories, and a charming Swiss-chalet-style chapel clustered against the backdrop of the Santa Monica Mountains in this early hand-colored Edwardian card. Established in 1888 on 300 acres donated by Senator John P. Jones and developer Arcadia Bandini de Baker, the facility — today the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center campus — was one of the grandest veterans' care institutions in the nation and a popular tourist attraction in its own right, drawing sightseers on the electric streetcar from Los Angeles. The sender, writing on the front in looping cursive ("Regards to the club"), addressed the card to a Mr. I.O. von Gothen at 1155 Boston Road in the Bronx, New York City, and mailed it from what appears to be a Los Angeles-area post office in May 1907. Published by Newman Post Card Co. of Los Angeles and printed in Germany, this is a fine early example of the "Made in Germany" Edwardian postcard trade that dominated American souvenir cards before World War I.