A broad brick pathway draws the eye deep into a formal garden ablaze with tropical color — bougainvillea, hibiscus, and croton spilling over manicured hedgerows beneath a canopy of royal palms soaring toward a cloud-scattered Florida sky — in this luminous early view of the Royal Palm Gardens in Miami, Florida, likely associated with Henry Flagler's legendary Royal Palm Hotel, the grande dame of Miami's Gilded Age tourist infrastructure that first opened its doors in 1897 and made the city a winter destination for America's wealthiest families. The hand-tinted rendering by E.C. Kropp's Milwaukee printing house captures the aspirational lushness that Florida promoters were selling to a nation of cold-weather dreamers, each postcard a tiny ambassador for the sunshine state's booming real estate and tourism economy of the 1910s. The reverse bears Kropp's characteristic green "Post Card" script and a simple "Address" field with no divided-back message space, pointing to the transitional period of postcard production.