A paddle-wheel steamer named Luitpold idles at the Loschwitz landing stage on the Elbe while summer visitors stroll the long terrace of the L. Puetzsch restaurant — and high above, the cable cars of the world's oldest funicular railway climb a forested hillside dotted with villas, in this beautifully hand-colored pre-linen postcard dating to around 1900. Loschwitz, now a suburb of Dresden, was then a fashionable destination for day-trippers arriving exactly as shown here, by Elbe steamship. The reverse is unposted and blank save the bilingual "Postkarte — Carte Postale / Weltpostverein" imprint and publisher number 3169, placing this firmly in the Universal Postal Union era before 1905 divided-back reforms.