Miss Bertha Wilson was in Louisville, the charming city on the Ohio River in Kentucky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky
Bertha was staying at the Galt House, the city’s landmark hotel on the waterfront.
In 1905, Bertha would be enjoying the second Galt House – the first (converted from a private mansion) had been destroyed by fire.
The second Galt House was a grand neoclassical building that became the center of Louisville social life until it failed in 1919.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galt_House
In February of 1905, Bertha received a postcard from Mexico.
I cannot decipher the initials of the sender, but the postcard was mailed from Monterrey – the storied regional capital in northeast Mexico.
(Monterrey was the scene of a bloody battle during the US invasion of Mexico in 1846.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterrey
The face of Betha’s postcard is a bit of original art portraying a Mexican woman with an infant strapped to her back.
The work by an anonymous artist was published by J. Granat whose life story is worthy of a novel.
An immigrant to the US from what is now Ukraine, Granat tried his hand at numerous businesses and trades until settling in Mexico where he became an influential publisher of postcards.
Because the postcard had no place for a message on the reverse, there is a brief greeting inscribed on the face.
Bertha seems to have been pleased with the artistic greeting as the postcard was preserved in good condition throughout her life.
