Real Photo Postcard, undivided back. “Carte Postale. Ce côté est exclusivement réservée à l’adresse.” Photographer and publisher unknown logos showing RPH and PMM. Series L.B. 7592. Circa 1900 – 1904.

Price:  $10.00

True, the beautiful wintertime photo used for this postcard may have been taken somewhere other than France. But I’ve (internally) given it the above title every time I’ve looked at it, so…. It’s a postcard produced from a real photo, but with publisher and possibly the photographer logo, and a series number at the bottom right; so, a commercial type of Real Photo Postcard. It shows a farmhouse, with rustic wooden fence, woodpile, a couple of deciduous trees in the foreground, a wood of evergreens in the background, and last but not least a woman out working in her garden. The ground, the tree branches, some farm implements next to the fence, and of course, the rooftops, are all blanketed with snow. Maybe it is late autumn with an early snowfall, or early spring with snow on the ground still. But what vegetable would she hoeing?

The logos – one on the front and other on the back – are from an as-of-yet unidentified publisher and photographer, we presume, but which would be which is also unknown.

   “P” and an “H” inside a larger “R.” We’ll call it RPH.

  Larger “P” and smaller double “M” in a circle. We’ll call it PMM.