Vivid color postcard of the Place de la Bourse in Brussels — the grand neoclassical Stock Exchange building anchoring the right side of the frame, electric trams threading through a dense Edwardian crowd, horse-drawn vehicles, cyclists, and shoppers filling the wide boulevard, the striped awnings of the "Magasins de la Bourse" shops running along the left. The Place de la Bourse was the commercial heart of Brussels at the turn of the century, and this card captures the city at its confident Edwardian peak — prosperous, busy, modern. It was sent by someone named Klim from Brussels, writing to an official of the Imperial-Royal Northern Railway Directorate in Vienna, reporting greetings from an exhibition in Brussels and arranging to meet the next day.

• Caption: Bruxelles, Place de la Bourse.
• Postmark: Brussels, c.1905
• Status: Posted