A long mirror of still water stretches through the Johannesstaden quarter of Strasbourg — then Strassburg under German Imperial administration — as floating laundry barges crowd the near bank, linden trees shade the quay, and in the far distance the dome of the Palais du Rhin shimmers through morning haze, the whole composition framed with the precision of a lithographic engraving, though this is a refined photomechanical print of c.1899–1904. The card carries both the German "Strassburg" and French "Strasbourg" spellings, reflecting the contested Alsatian identity of the city during the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen period (1871–1918). Published by the Établissement des Arts Graphiques de Luxembourg (Series VIII, No. 41), this undivided-back card is a vivid document of the city before the upheaval of the First World War returned it to France. The card is unused.