Issued to mark the centennial of Friedrich Schiller's death in 1905, this handsome multi-vignette commemorative postcard is a miniature shrine to Germany's beloved poet-playwright: a laurel-wreathed portrait bust after Rietschel's famous monument anchors the left, flanked by a view of Schiller's garden in Jena (1797, after a drawing by Goethe himself), the Schillerhaus in Weimar where he lived from 1802, and a dramatic scene from his masterwork Wallenstein — first performed October 12, 1798. Published by A. Selige of St. Louis and intended for the American market, the undivided-back card reflects the enormous pride of German-American communities in their cultural heritage during the Gilded Age.