A torrent of 1930s automobiles, double-decker buses, and thousands of New Yorkers surges up Fifth Avenue while the Empire State Building pierces the sky above — this electric linen postcard captures midtown Manhattan at the peak of its Art Deco swagger, the New York Public Library's lion-flanked façade anchoring the right foreground in Beaux-Arts grandeur. Published by Frank E. Cooper of 255 Broadway and printed by the legendary Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago using their "C.T. Art-Colortone" linen process, this card is a textbook example of the linen postcard at its vivid best — the saturated colors and visible cloth texture that defined American tourist ephemera from the mid-1930s through the 1950s. The back text cheerfully directs recipients to "note the LIONS guarding the bookworms" — a quintessentially New York moment of civic pride and wry humor.