A vivid linen-era snapshot of academic history, this 1939 chrome-linen card captures the stately red-brick arcades of the West Range at the University of Virginia — the very corridor where a young Edgar Allan Poe once slept in Room 13 during his sole, turbulent academic year of 1826. The long colonnaded façade stretches dramatically across the composition, its white-trimmed arches glowing against a painterly twilight sky of orange and blue, lush Virginia oaks framing the scene. The card was mailed in August 1939 by Louise, who with her companion Kate rose before breakfast to roam the campus, finding it "much more beautiful than Syracuse's campus" before heading on to Skyline Drive — a breezy, Depression-era road trip captured in a few vivid lines of cursive.