Antique & Vintage Postcards

Partially hidden among a tangle of sun-dappled branches, a fashionably dressed young woman in a broad-brimmed cloche-style hat turns toward the camera with playful half-concealment — one arm extended to grasp a branch, her dark vest and light blouse catching flecks of filtered light in this charming candid real-photo postcard from the early twentieth century. The image has the spontaneous, informal quality of a snapshot taken by a friend or companion on an outdoor excursion, likely somewhere in the American West, and printed onto postcard stock bearing the distinctive ornate Cy Fho "Place Postage Stamp Here" logo — a publisher or paper-stock brand used in the 1910s. The identity of the subject is unknown, but her clothing and the relaxed outdoor setting speak eloquently of the era's new freedoms for women.