A stately red-brick high school with white Ionic columns and a proud American flag commands a manicured lawn in this sunny linen-era view of Hornell, New York — mailed on July 21, 1952, by a traveler named Mrs. M to her friend in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. "Time seems to go awfully fast," she writes with cheerful wistfulness, noting she came "the end of June and now it is almost the end of July" — a small, human moment of summer slipping by, addressed to Mrs. Riner at 3217 N. Fourth St. The Hornell postmark is crisp and the Curteich linen print retains its vivid greens and blues, a handsome record of mid-century American civic architecture and the enduring tradition of the "wish you were here" card.