A quietly powerful relic of abolitionist memory: this hand-colored divided-back card depicts the John Brown Homestead in Akron, Ohio — a rambling white clapboard house with a distinctive square tower and tall brick chimney, framed by stone gateposts and lush autumn-tinted maples — printed in Germany for the Akron and Canton, Ohio market in the early 1900s. John Brown, the fiery anti-slavery activist whose 1859 Harper's Ferry raid electrified the nation, lived in this Akron home during formative years of his life. The sender, signing only as "P.J.C.," wrote with cheerful irreverence to Miss Nellie at Overlook Road, Euclid Heights, Cleveland: "I suppose you have heard of the song John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave — well this is his homestead." Postmarked Kent, Ohio, August 30, 1909 at 6:30 AM — a sleepy summer morning dispatch that carries the weight of American history in its ink.