This website has very few postcards like this one – a postcard photographs of a US scene that was sent abroad.
Lizzie was in Brockton, a city on the Salisbury Plain River in Plymouth County of east-central Massachusetts.
An historic city, composed of two villages (Montello and Campello), Brockton was a thriving center of shoe manufacturing at the turn of the 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockton,_Massachusetts
In September of 1907, Lizzie sent a postcard to her cousin Mr. Arthur Poole.
Arthur was in Penarth, a town on the Severn estuary at Cardiff Bay in South Wales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Severn
Three miles south of the city of Cardiff, this “Garden by the Sea” was inhabited since the Neolithic age.
Historical records of the area date from the 12th century when most of land was held by the Augustinian Monastery at Bristol.
This coast land was notorious for piracy.
Penarth was still a small farming community when the lands came into the possession of the Earls of Plymouth in the 19th century.
Within a decade, Penarth became a popular seaside resort – and remained so throughout the Victorian age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penarth
We do not know what circumstance or interest brought Arthur to Penarth.
We see that Lizzie applied two stamps for foreign postage.
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The face of the postcard is a photograph of Main Street in Brockton – the title indicates that this is the smaller village of “Campello”.
The tree-shaded street is lined with telephone poles; and the houses are connected by sidewalks.
Trolley tracks are laid in the center of the street- enabling the residents to travel easily to other parts of the town.
I cannot distinguish the publishers mark, but the postcard was “Printed in Germany”
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Because there is no place on the reverse for a message, Lizzie inscribed a few lines on the face.
After greeting, “Dear Cousin Arthur”, Lizzie acknowledges having “received your letter”.
Lizzie promises that she “will write later”.
About Arthur (or a possible son), Lizzie is “hoping the dear Boy is well and happy”.
In closing, Lizzie assures Arthur, “I remain your Old Pal”.
Lizzie adds a number of kiss marks.
One hopes that Arthur was pleased by the greeting and that Lizzie did compose a letter promptly.
The postcard was preserved in good condition and returned to the United States at some time.
