Antique real photo postcard (RPPC) showing a group of six young men gathered on the front steps of a wood-frame house numbered 303. Four are seated shoulder to shoulder on the step in sack suits and neckties — one in a white flat cap, another in a creased soft felt hat — while a fifth leans against the porch in shirtsleeves and a sixth sits above them on the step edge in a dark suit and fedora. Wonderful period detail throughout: turned porch columns, clapboard siding, a spindled railing, lace curtain in the door light, climbing vine at the window, and the enameled 303 house number plate above the doorway. Warm sepia tones with good contrast and sharp faces.
The back is an unused AZO divided-back stamp box with four upward-pointing triangles, dating the card stock to roughly 1904–1918. Never mailed, no writing or postmark, no album residue. Measures approximately 5-1/8 x 3-1/4 inches.
A great candidate for social history, men's fashion, architecture, or found-photo collections, and equally at home framed or in an album. Please review the detailed photos as part of the condition description.
Condition:
Very good vintage condition for its age. Light overall toning consistent with a card of this era. A faint diagonal surface line runs through the upper right area of the image, visible at an angle but not distracting. A few tiny light specks in the lower right border. Corners square, edges clean, no bends, no tears, no creasing through the subjects. Back is clean, bright, unused and unwritten.
Specifics:
- Type: Real Photo Postcard (RPPC)
- Subject: Group portrait, six young men, house porch
- Era: circa 1904–1918 (AZO stamp box, four triangles pointing up)
- Publisher/Paper: AZO photographic postcard stock
- Back: Divided back, unposted, unwritten
- Size: approx. 5-1/8 x 3-1/4 in.
- Color: Black and white / sepia
- Country/Region: United States
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- SKU: none present
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