With deadpan Edwardian wit, this real-photo comic postcard titled "Married Bliss" stages a bedroom scene in which a weary, nightcap-wearing husband sits slumped at the edge of an iron bed while a wide-awake wife looms beside him clutching what appears to be a crocheted bag — the implication of a nagging domestic dynamic rendered with theatrical flair by two costumed actors in a photographic studio. The sepia real-photo format lends an almost documentary realism to the comic conceit, making this a particularly striking example of the genre. Mailed in June 1907 from Brooklyn, New York to Lew (last name omitted) at 305 Lincoln Avenue in Utica, N.Y., the card carries no written message beyond the address — the image, apparently, spoke for itself.