Shot from street level with an artist's eye, this real-photo postcard frames the ornate iron gates and sculpted stone entrance of Chapultepec — Mexico City's legendary castle hill — with a massive ahuehuete tree in the foreground and the hilltop palace rising in the distance through bare winter branches, captured on March 8, 1941. The angle is remarkable: taken low, almost from the gutter, so that a puddle of rainwater fills the foreground and reflects the gate's stonework — an accidentally modernist composition for a souvenir card. A crouching vendor or worker at the gate adds authentic street life. On the back, a writer who visited on a Saturday describes seeing "this castle" and "many other interesting buildings," mentions a grand ride on "El Flecha Dorada" (the Golden Arrow bus line), and notes that the city was named "Gardenia" — likely a hotel or neighborhood — adding that they "saw a bull, right after that day, and actually got a thrill out of it." The card was mailed from Mexico City on March 8, 1941, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H— at 33 Carthage Street, Rochester, New York.