Two young boys — one seated, one standing — pause beside the ornamental pond of Milan's Giardini Pubblici in the spring of 1903, their worn working clothes a candid counterpoint to the elegant public gardens behind them where well-dressed Milanese promenade in the middle distance. This early undivided-back real-photograph collotype card captures the Pubblici Giardini, Milan's first public park opened in 1888 and designed by Emilio Alemagna, with the bare lattice of plane trees reflected on the still water — a scene of quiet urban grace. The card was posted from Milan on April 28, 1903 with a 10-centeseimi Italian stamp bearing the portrait of King Vittorio Emanuele III, and delivered to a recipient named Jenny at Lützowstrasse 48, Berlin N/W 30, bearing the Berlin postal delivery stamp "Bestellt vom Postamt 28/1 03." A rare early international card with genuine human figures, a Berlin delivery mark, and a collectable Italian stamp.