A man and woman in traditional Dalmatian dress stand on the Venetian quay (Molo veneto) at Spalato — now Split, Croatia — with the old harbor behind them, yellow-sailed trading boats moored at the Riva Vecchia, and the round medieval tower of the Kačić bastion rising above the roofline of the old town, which is built in and around the 4th-century palace of Emperor Diocletian. Spalato was under Austro-Hungarian rule from 1814 to 1918, but its streets, harbor, and inhabitants still carried centuries of Venetian and Dalmatian culture; publishers produced scores of ethnographic cards like this one for the tourist trade that was opening up along the Adriatic coast. The bilingual caption — Italian above, Croatian below — reflects the competing cultural identities of the city in this period. Never mailed.

• Caption: Spalato. Molo veneto e vista alla Riva vecchia. / Spljet. Mletački mul i pogled na Staroj Obali.
• Card no.: 8332
• Publisher: Purger & Co., München
• Status: Unposted