Under a warm amber Mexican sky, the bronze figure of Christopher Columbus stretches one arm toward the horizon from atop his elaborate stone pedestal on the Paseo de la Reforma — the globe-lamp streetlights glowing softly around the iron fence and crimson flower beds in this hand-tinted early card that captures the monument at the height of the Porfiriato's grand urban ambitions. The Columbus Monument, sculpted by French artist Charles Cordier and inaugurated in 1877 under President Porfirio Díaz, stood at the intersection of the Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Juárez as a centerpiece of Mexico City's European-influenced boulevard until its controversial removal in 2020. The postcard was mailed from Mexico City, postmarked at "Suchil" (a Durango state postmark is partially legible), and carries a breezy message from a businessman named Harry to a woman addressed as Mrs. F.H. P— at 8 Hamilton Ave., Auburn, New York: "Hallo. Am here to get a big contract from the govt. for highway from Mex. City to Laredo. Expect to put it over. This is a very fine city. Warm days; cold nights. Particulars later. Yours, Harry." The frank businesslike optimism — a government highway contract connecting Mexico City to the Texas border — is a vivid window into early infrastructure ambition in post-revolutionary Mexico.