A luminous hand-colored panorama sweeps across the rooftops of Interlaken toward the ice-crowned Jungfrau massif, its glaciers catching an almost supernatural light above the lush Bernese Oberland valley — the kind of view that sent Victorian and Edwardian travelers like a young Ernst or Hilde into rapturous diary entries about Alpine grandeur. Published in 1902 by Dr. Trenkler Co. of Leipzig, one of Europe's premier postcard printing houses, this early color-printed card exemplifies the Gruss aus tradition at its most polished: the Aare River glints in the lower left, red-roofed Swiss chalets and grand resort hotels cluster in the middle ground, and rolling green hillsides frame the scene like a theater curtain. Interlaken was already the undisputed queen of Swiss tourism by this date, its hotels full of English, German, and American Grand Tour visitors.