From a hilltop perch on the Plabutsch ridge, this evocative 1931 real-photo postcard captures Graz spread across the Mur valley floor — the unmistakable Schlossberg rock rising from the city's heart, church spires punctuating the skyline, and suburban villas still separated by open fields and market gardens that would soon vanish under postwar expansion. The crisp silver-gelatin print retains remarkable tonal depth, pulling the eye from the foreground chapel through layers of settlement toward the Styrian hills beyond. On 4 November 1931 — a Wednesday, deep in the global depression — someone in Graz mailed this card to Mitzi at a rural rectory estate (Pfarrhof) in Gross Klein near Leibnitz, tucking in a few lines of affectionate Old German cursive that close with a warm farewell. The postmark reads Graz 1, and the Austrian 10-Groschen orange stamp of the 1929 Landscape definitive series pays the domestic postcard rate exactly.