Poolside at a sun-drenched border hotel, a young woman in a sweeping black-and-gold china poblana skirt poses with hand on hip as three caballeros in matching dark slacks look on — a staged but evocative tableau of the "romantic old Mexico" aesthetic that dominated mid-century tourist imagery along the U.S.–Mexico border corridor. Published by Barrera Publications of Laredo, Texas — a small regional house whose cards are scarcer than major publishers — this chrome was postmarked December 9, 1963, just weeks after the Kennedy assassination, and mailed to Mrs. Rebecca Drake at the Veterans Hospital Library in Amarillo, Texas. The sender packs the reverse with lively observations: Old Mexico "had this for us tomorrow — a trip across to Guatemala," references to friends named "Dolores" and difficulty crossing the border, and warm holiday wishes. The postmark machine slogan reads "Fight — Support TB Assoc[iation]," a common 1960s public-health cancel.