Summertime tourists cluster around the thatched-roof replica of the Pilgrims' first house at Plimouth Plantation, their bright 1950s dresses and handbags making a vivid contrast against the rough-hewn timber walls — a snapshot of mid-century American heritage tourism at its most charming. The linen-era card, published by Smith's Inc. of Plymouth, Massachusetts, captures the living history site shortly after its founding, when visitors could still approach the exhibits intimately without today's interpretive barriers. On June 22, 1953, Marie dashed off a breezy note to Ella in St. Louis, confessing to a "(small) dip in the ocean this morning" — a tiny, delightful window into a New England summer holiday.