Rolling meadows striped with fresh-ploughed furrows tumble down toward a cluster of white-walled summer guesthouses in Ottertal, Lower Austria — the great massif of the Schneeberg (2,075 m) looming snow-capped on the horizon, a landscape unchanged since Viennese families first flocked here for "Sommerfrische," the beloved Austrian tradition of escaping the city heat. Mailed on 8 July 1931 with a postmark from Kirchberg am Wechsel, this real-photo card was addressed to the Karg family at Vulgasse 5/32 in Vienna's 20th district (Brigittenau). The sender's lengthy purple-ink message fills every margin, a window into the intimacy of interwar Austrian summer life. The 10-Groschen Österreich stamp in golden-brown anchors the corner.