Steel sinew stretched across tidal water — the Grace Memorial Bridge soars over the Cooper River in this vivid linen-era card, its cantilever trusses silhouetted against a blazing amber and gold sunset sky, with a second span visible in the misty distance and a lone sailboat drifting beneath. Completed in 1929 at a cost of nearly six million dollars, the bridge was at the time the fifth-largest cantilever bridge in the world, standing higher than the Brooklyn Bridge and carrying motorists along the vital Montreal-to-Miami corridor on U.S. 701 and U.S. 17. The toll — fifty cents for a car and driver, fifteen cents per additional passenger — was a real consideration during the Depression years when this card was likely sold. Distributed by F.J. Martschink of Charleston, it was printed by the celebrated Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" process, which gave linen cards their characteristic rich, saturated palette.