Cherry and pear trees explode in clouds of white blossom, nearly swallowing a handsome red-brick and stucco institutional building whose green-railed exterior staircase peeks through the flowering canopy — a scene of such painterly softness it might be a watercolor, yet it is the precise photochrome process that gives it this luminous, almost otherworldly glow. Card number 1597 in the NPG Photochromie series, this view captures what appears to be a civic or academic courtyard in a German-speaking city, the stone benches and careful plantings suggesting a municipal park or institution garden. The image detail shows a sundial or birdbath column, two wooden park benches, and a low stone wall separating the manicured lawn from a paved path — everyday details that transport the viewer to a lost Edwardian afternoon. Unused and unaddressed, it waited patiently in some collector's album, the blossoms as fresh as the day the stones were inked.