Before Cooperstown meant only baseball, it was home to one of America's finest living history collections — and this vivid linen-era postcard captures the Farmers Museum at its most picturesque: the great gambrel-roofed main barn, built of rough-cut stone and draped in ivy, anchors the composition while a handsome round stone silo with its copper-topped cupola stands sentinel at the gate, framed by the deep summer green of Otsego County hardwoods. The Farmers Museum was established in 1943 on the historic Hyde property, and this C. T. American Art linen card published by C. W. Hughes & Co. of Mechanicville, N.Y., with its characteristic saturated colors — electric turquoise sky, burnt-orange roof tiles — typifies the optimistic visual language of mid-century American tourism. The reverse carries a "Place One Cent Stamp Here" box, helping date this to the 1940s when the one-cent domestic postcard rate was still in force. An appealing piece for collectors of New York State history, living history museums, or Cooperstown memorabilia beyond the Baseball Hall of Fame.