Antique & Vintage Postcards

Soaring above the rooftop of the Argentine National Congress, this dramatic aerial black-and-white view sweeps down the length of Plaza Congreso — its formal gardens, central reflecting pool, and the bold bronze figure of the Monumento a los Dos Congresos catching morning light as Avenida Rivadavia vanishes into the Buenos Aires skyline beyond. Published by Bourquin & Kohlmann of Buenos Aires (Edición No. 50), this is a finely printed gelatin-silver style tarjeta postal from what appears to be the late 1920s to early 1930s, when the plaza had recently been completed in its modern form. The card is unused and unaddressed, its reverse carrying only the publisher's legal deposit notice — "Queda hecho el Depósito Legal — Reproducción Prohibida" — a reminder that Argentine publishers took their copyright seriously even a century ago.