Rising dramatically above Milwaukee's downtown streetscape, the ornate Romanesque Revival clock tower of City Hall dominates this vivid linen-era aerial view — its green copper spire piercing a golden-hour sky while a yellow streetcar threads the boulevard below, conjuring the unhurried civic pride of a mid-century Midwestern metropolis. Completed in 1895 and designed by architect Henry Koch, Milwaukee City Hall was once the tallest building in the United States, its 393-foot tower a source of immense local boasting rights; the building is now a National Historic Landmark. This linen postcard, published by the E. C. Kropp Company right in Milwaukee, captures the hall in its full inter-war glory — automobiles of the late 1930s dot the surrounding streets, a "Welcome" banner hangs visibly on the tower face, and the surrounding cityscape stretches toward the horizon in warm lithographic tones of ochre, sienna, and sage. Kropp, founded by Emil C. Kropp, was one of the premier Midwestern postcard publishers of the linen era, and their cards are prized by Wisconsin collectors for their vivid color rendering and local subject expertise.