A long banquet table buzzes with laughter and clinking glasses as a dozen young men and women lean toward one another in animated conversation — the caption reads "I'm in good company. Don't worry!" — a reassuring, tongue-in-cheek message that Emma received in Redwood, New York, in May 1917, just weeks after the United States entered World War I. The colorized photo shows Edwardian party dress giving way to wartime-era fashion, the women in white shirtwaists and one in a rose-pink gown. The sender, who signs as "Ena" or "Emma," writes of feeling better after a second dose of "the chamber" medicine and mentions the weather changing. The 1¢ Washington stamp — a 1916–1917 issue — anchors the card firmly in the opening months of America's war years.