Early color lithograph postcard of the Wall district in Kiel, Germany — a busy harbor quayside scene showing the Holsten-Halle commercial building and Kaufhaus International at left, a church steeple rising behind, a steam tram rounding the corner, and small fishing boats moored at the quay at right, with figures in Edwardian dress going about their day. Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein and home to the Imperial German Navy's main Baltic fleet base, was in 1905 a city of rapid naval and commercial expansion; the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal connecting the Baltic to the North Sea had opened just ten years earlier, making Kiel a strategic hub of Wilhelmine Germany. The message, written across the image in pencil in German cursive, was sent the same day it was postmarked — July 23, 1905 — arriving in Heide the same afternoon.

• Caption: "Kiel. Wall."
• Publisher: T.E.L. Serie Kiefer Ansichten 18
• Postmark: Kiel, July 23, 1905; arrival Heide, July 23, 1905
• Status: Posted