Gleaming white limestone rises in neoclassical grandeur along Pennsylvania Avenue as a fleet of 1930s automobiles lines the curb in front of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. — a linen-era snapshot that doubles as a rare street-level document of Depression-era American cars and capital pageantry. Completed in 1935 and designed by architect John Russell Pope, the Archives Building houses the nation's most sacred documents: the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. The back of this unused card waxes poetic: "Corinthian columns, 57 feet high, majestically stand watch, in addition to colossal bronze doors, over the treasured Constitution and Declaration of Independence, in addition to thousands and thousands of other valuable papers." Published by the District News Co. and copyrighted by H.H. Rideout, this is an early card of an iconic building that had only recently opened its doors.