Dappled shade falls across a quiet Gold Rush–era boardwalk as a lone figure rests outside the brick City Hotel in Columbia, California — the hand-painted "Board Room" sign and painted beer mug on the whitewashed wall hint at the saloon life that once roared through this Mother Lode town, now preserved as Columbia State Historic Park on the Mark Twain–Bret Harte Trail in Tuolumne County. This genuine real-photo postcard (RPPC) was produced by Frashers Fotos of Pomona, California, the premier documentary postcard photography house of the mid-twentieth-century American West; catalog number F5723 helps date the card to the 1950s. The printed caption on the front notes that a wooden "Miner's Boarding House" stood on the site in 1850, burned in the "great conflagration of '54," and was replaced by George Morgan's brick hotel — whose original mahogany bar, the text proudly notes, "is still in place." The reverse is clean and unused, published by Frashers, Inc., Pomona, Calif.