Vivid linen-era chromolithography brings a sun-drenched Southern California garden to life: a 200-year-old Mexican carreta — a rough-hewn ox cart with solid wooden wheels, the hallmark of Spanish Colonial California — sits amid an explosion of pink azaleas, red and yellow blooms, and lush subtropical foliage, framed by the sweeping curve of a massive tree limb. The card's back identifies the scene as Ramona's Marriage Place (Casa de Estudillo) in Old Town San Diego, built in 1825 and by 1949 operating as a showplace for Spanish, Indian, and early American antiques. Mailed January 31, 1949, from Norwalk, California, by Mr. and Mrs. Fred to Mrs. William in Port Huron, Michigan, reporting a fine trip and an enjoyable visit with Wesley and his family — a warm domestic vignette of postwar American travel.