A vivid orange locomotive charges straight at the viewer, its destination board boldly lettered Groeten uit Rotterdam ("Greetings from Rotterdam") — a Dutch novelty card that doubles as a miniature souvenir album. Published by J. Slegtkamp of Amsterdam, this early-1900s chromolithograph captures the drama of railway modernity at full throttle, steam billowing from an engine in the distance as the long passenger consist curves away on gleaming rails. Hidden inside the locomotive's cab panel is the real magic: a concertina-folded leporello strip of small black-and-white photographic views of Rotterdam, including the Post en Telegraafkantoor (Post & Telegraph Office), Mathenesserlaan boulevard, and Monument van 't Hoff at the Gravendijkwal — a snapshot of the city before the devastating 1940 bombing that erased much of old Rotterdam. These "greeting from" novelty cards with pull-out miniature views were enormously popular in Wilhelmina-era Netherlands and are keenly sought today by both railway and Dutch topography collectors.