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Overview:This real photograph captures a highly candid, almost surreal moment of a man feeding pigeons in an outdoor park setting. The image stands out as a rare and excellent example of early 20th-century street photography. The striking motion blur of the birds taking flight directly in front of the subject is an authentic, unedited photographic artifact caused by the slower shutter speeds of early cameras attempting to capture fast-moving wildlife.
Front of Card:A vertical, sepia-toned real photograph showing a man standing on a paved walkway in a sunlit park. He is dressed in typical Edwardian daywear, featuring a dark suit, dark trousers, and a stiff straw boater hat. His face, torso, and outstretched arms are almost entirely obscured by a flurry of white pigeons, their rapid movement captured as a bright, ghostly motion blur across the center of the frame. Several other pigeons, including some with darker mottled feathers, are gathered around his feet pecking at the ground. In the background on the left, a young girl wearing a light-colored knee-length dress and a dark ribbon in her hair walks away from the camera, looking down at a book or paper in her hands. The backdrop consists of a dark, shadowed wall or structure contrasting with lush, sun-dappled trees.
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Publisher Info: The back features a divided layout with \"POST CARD\" printed at the top in outlined, serif letters. \"CORRESPONDENCE\" and \"NAME AND ADDRESS\" separate the two halves. The stamp box features the distinctive crescent moon \"Cyko\" brand logo, which dates the photographic paper to between 1904 and the 1920s.
