A still grey-green lake mirrors the forested cliffs of the Bernese Oberland as wooden chalet-style houses crowd the shoreline of Brienz, their balconies draped with summer growth and a small wooden boat pulled up onto the stone quay — above them all, the white clock tower of the Reformed Church of Brienz stands sentinel on its wooded promontory, exactly as it has since the 15th century. This early photographic halftone card, number 94 in the EJJ series (the sunburst "E.J.J." publisher's mark appears in the lower-left corner), captures the village before the age of motor tourism, when Brienz was known principally for wood-carving workshops and as the eastern terminus of the Lake Brienz steamers. The reverse is a clean divided "Carte Postale" format, printed in French only, suggesting a Swiss publisher targeting the Francophone and international tourist market — entirely unused and unwritten.