A young man in a dark suit jacket, white collar, and tie faces the camera for a studio portrait. The print fades at the edges into a soft vignette, a finish common to studio work of the period. Nothing on the card identifies the sitter or the town where the photograph was made.
Real-photo postcards let small local studios offer portraits that could be mailed to family and friends, so an anonymous sitter like this one was likely a local customer rather than a public figure.
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Notes
Sepia real photo print with vignetted edges; scan is rotated 90 degrees; light surface spotting and edge wear; no printed caption or border text.
No postmark. Undivided back ("THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS") with "Place one-cent stamp here" box, indicating c. 1901-1907. No stamp, no address, no message; only a small handwritten inventory mark ("RMLT 3-") in the upper left. Front is a sepia real-photo portrait of a young man.
Cite this card
Studio portrait of a young man, circa 1905, postcard, c. 1901. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/studio-portrait-of-a-young-man-circa-1905. Accessed November 2, 2026.
