Warm Collegiate Gothic stone arches glow in hand-applied color on this early-century campus card — the Ridgely Library at Washington University in St. Louis photographed when its red-brick arcade was still newly scrubbed, students in long coats visible beneath the colonnaded walkway. The Albertype Company of Brooklyn — renowned for their meticulous halftone collotype printing — produced this card for the Washington University Book Store, capturing the building that served as the university's primary library until Olin Library opened in 1962. The undivided-to-divided back transition and Albertype production date this card firmly to the 1905–1915 window, making it a genuine Edwardian-era campus collectible. Unposted and clean, this is a fine example of early American academic postcardiana.