Few American historic sites carry the patriotic weight of the Moore House in Yorktown, Virginia — the very room where British General Cornwallis's representatives signed the articles of capitulation on October 18, 1781, effectively ending the Revolutionary War. Here it is rendered in the luscious Phostint color process of the Detroit Publishing Company, the most celebrated American postcard publisher of the era: a gambrel-roofed colonial farmhouse in white clapboard with green shutters sits amid bare trees and a neatly edged gravel path, a decorative urn on the lawn, the broad York River visible in the distance behind a split-rail fence. The warm pastel palette — soft greens, blush sky, amber earth — is characteristic of Detroit Publishing's finest work. The back is a pristine undivided-style divided back with the "Phostint" trade name registered with the U.S. Patent Office, postage note "United States and Canada One Cent, Foreign Two Cents," and the full Detroit Publishing Co. imprint. Catalog number 12427. Unused, unposted.