Sun-dappled tall pines frame a winding lakeside drive as early automobiles park quietly at the water's edge in this cheerful linen-era "Greetings From" card from Constantia, New York — a small village on the southern shore of Oneida Lake, New York's largest inland lake and a beloved summer retreat since the nineteenth century. What makes this card especially charming is the breezy personal note scrawled on the back by a vacationer named Martha, who wrote in August 1940: "Well, I got here and have started relaxing immediately. Ted and I are bound to disgrace the family by our bum-like appearance — so Mother says. I'm freezing!" Martha addressed the card to a Mrs. M. E. Kolhas at the Employment Statistics Section, Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. — a wonderfully specific government address that conjures a vivid picture of wartime-era federal Washington. The 1-cent George Washington stamp (Scott #804) is neatly cancelled with a Constantia, NY machine postmark dated August 1940.