Antique & Vintage Postcards

A picturesque glimpse of rural Bosnian life under Austro-Hungarian administration: a whitewashed two-storey farmhouse with a steep thatched-shingle hip roof stands behind a lush green lawn where a man in traditional red fez and striped vest carries a basket of firewood while a second figure rests on the grass and a third sits further back beside a grazing goat. The caption reads Ein bosnischer Bauernhof — "A Bosnian Farmhouse" — a subject that Austro-Hungarian publishers marketed heavily to satisfy European curiosity about the newly annexed Balkan territories. Published by Albert Thier of Sarajevo (catalogue S2651), the "Dopisnica / Correspondenz-Karte" back format dates this card to the early divided-back era, approximately 1905–1910.