A gleaming red-brick edifice in French Second Empire style dominates this vivid linen-era card of the Custom House in Ciudad Juárez — a Model T–era automobile idles at the curb while a Mexico-marked streetcar glides past, capturing a border city humming with commerce in the 1920s. The back carries an equally compelling story: in August 1944, a woman named simply as a "Mrs." writing from El Paso apologizes charmingly for a pen-pal mix-up — "Hello, would like to exchange letters… don't know if I spelled your name right… my address was wrong" — a wartime note of neighborly optimism sent across Kansas City. The printed description on the reverse proudly notes that in this very building, Mexican President Díaz hosted a banquet for U.S. President Taft on October 17, 1909, with decorations reportedly costing over 100,000 pesos — a diplomatic summit at the dawn of the Mexican Revolution.