Miss Ethel Pedigree lived in Merchantville, a pretty borough on the Delaware River of Camden County in southwest New Jersey.

The borough seems to assumed this name because the four founders were all merchants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchantville,_New_Jersey

In April of 1908, Ethel received a postcard from Alice.

Alice mailed the postcard from Boston the largest city and the capital of Massachusetts,

It appears the postcard was published a few years earlier, as the “undivided back” leaves no room for a message.

In a cryptic note in the margin of the face, Alice writes, “It’s the ‘morning after’, we go to Cambridge today”.

Alas, we do not know what event was celebrated on the previous day – and we have no clues about the purpose of Alice’s excursion in Boston.

The town of Cambridge, MA lies across the Charles River from the city of Boston; it is the home of Harvard University.

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On the face, we see a hand-colored photograph of the statue of John Harvard.

A chiseled inscription notes “John Harvard” , the simple word, “Founder”, and the date “1638”.

A printed title names the sitter and identifies “Harvard College”.

John Harvard (1607-1638) was a Puritan minister, born in Southwark, England and educated at Cambridge University.

He emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1637 and was a teaching elder (minister) to a congregation in Cambridge.

Harvard died of tuberculosis in 1638, at the age of 37.

On his deathbed, he bequeathed his library and property of 400 acres to the new college authorized by the Colony.

In gratitude for this gift, the college was built in Cambridge and named in his honor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvard

The bronze statue by sculptor, Daniel Chester French, was erected in Harvard Yard in 1884.

There were no likenesses of John Harvard to be used as guides for the statue, so French adopted a Harvard graduate with a long Harvard pedigree to sit as a model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_John_Harvard

This postcard photograph was published by the Souvenir Post Card Company of New York and Berlin.

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We trust that Ethel was pleased by the souvenir and that Alice returned safely from her travels.

Ethel preserved the postcard in good condition throughout her life.