Bessie Bernot lived at 1482 Second Avenue in the Lenox Hill neighborhood on the upper east side of Manhattan.
An apartment building was erected on that site during 1910; we do not know if Bessie had had to move or if she took one of the new apartments.
{The four-story, 12-unit building is currently listed for sale at about 5 million dollars.}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_East_Side
In January of 1910, Bessie mailed an art postcard to her friend, Celia Bernstein, who lived in Newark, NJ.
Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, and was a prosperous center of industry and transportation in 1910.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey
The face of the postcard is a lovely scene of a lone church perched on the edge of a ravine.
The enormous peaks of the Alps tower over the church.
We have seen other postcard art containing views of the Alps, but this sunny painting is especially charming.
On the reverse, Bessie writes a long message.
She first expresses frustration that Celia has not received her earlier postcards.
Bessie expresses a hope that Celia will come to visit her in Manhattan.
It seems that the friends were once closer, as they are known to each other’s family.
In closing, Bessie sends greetings to Celia’s “folks”, and sends to them the best wishes of her family.
Celia preserved the postcard in good condition throughout her life.
One hopes that she and Bessie were able to maintain their friendship through the years that followed.
