Two women in traditional dress balance laden flat baskets on their heads as they walk a sun-dappled lane flanked by a rough stone wall in Sorrento — "Un viottolo a Sorrento" (a little lane in Sorrento) — in this warm sepia-toned postcard from the early twentieth century. The older woman, dressed in dark clothing, and her younger companion in a white blouse and dark skirt are captured mid-stride, the baskets piled high with what appears to be bread or produce, in a timeless image of southern Italian working life. This type of genre postcard, showing local workers and street scenes, was enormously popular with northern European and American tourists visiting the Amalfi coast in the early 1900s. The card was published by the French house Éditeurs L. & L. (Lévy & Lacroix / Lévy fils et Cie), one of the premier French postcard publishers of the period, who produced extensive Italian scenic series. The back bears the catalog number 1072 and the publisher's distinctive "L & L" blocked monogram.