Studio portrait of a woman and infant, Gallastown, PA, 1907

About this postcard

Studio portrait of a woman and an infant, the woman seated in an ornate wicker chair with the baby on her lap. She wears glasses and a bow tie; the child is dressed in white. The senders signed the front "From Grace & Leona, Nov. 2. 1907," and the note on the back asks the recipient to remember "these two faces," which suggests the pair pictured are the senders themselves, writing to Lydia Trost in Gallastown, Pennsylvania. Real photo postcards let ordinary families turn a single studio sitting into a stack of inexpensive keepsakes to hand out or mail, and heavy wicker chairs like this one were standard props in small-town photography studios of the period. The picture records a familiar exchange of the era: a new baby, a formal portrait, and a short greeting sent back to the home town.