A yellow streetcar glides up the broad ceremonial boulevard past early automobiles and blooming traffic islands while the U.S. Capitol dome shimmers gold in the distance — this linen-era hand-colored view of Pennsylvania Avenue captures Washington, D.C., at its most grandly optimistic, a city still young enough to be dazzled by its own architecture. Seen from the steps of the Treasury Building looking northwest toward the Capitol, the composition takes in the full sweep of America's most famous street: the ornate clock tower of the old Post Office (now Trump International Hotel), the Willard Hotel at mid-block, and the layered facades of the avenue's commercial buildings draped in early-autumn green. Period automobiles — boxy sedans and touring cars of the late 1920s — share the broad roadway with the streetcar, while fashionably dressed pedestrians stroll the sidewalks. Published by B.S. Reynolds Co. of Washington, D.C., and printed in the USA with the distinctive "M" (Metrocraft) imprint, this card is numbered 13786 in the publisher's series. The reverse describes the avenue as "the route of the Inauguration Day procession from the Capitol to the White House." An unused example in sharp, bright condition, this is a quintessential piece of interwar Washington ephemera.