The broad promenade of Rieger's Quai (Riegernovo nábřeží) unfolds along the Vltava in warm amber and slate tones — grand Historicist apartment palaces lining the embankment, ornate lamp-posts reflected in the river, a pedestrian bridge visible in the middle distance — in this evocative colour-printed postcard from wartime Prague, then still the Bohemian capital of the Habsburg Empire. The card forms part of a poignant pair: both front and back images shown here represent two separate cards sent by a woman named Rosa to her husband Josef, a Wachtmeister (sergeant) in Dragon Regiment No. 7 stationed at Brandeis on the Elbe (Brandýs nad Labem), and dated 29 April 1916, deep in the grinding middle years of the First World War. Rosa writes from Neuparschin (Nové Paršovice), Bohemia, of longing for Josef's return, news about horses, and the difficulties of Easter without him — intimate domestic dispatches from a home front rarely documented at this human scale.