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SeriesCorrespondence and manuscripts
Transcription
[Main message; line breaks retained] Lieber Papa Wann kommst Du die Karte habe ich selbst ausge- sucht. Viele Küsse Dein Dolf. [Address; partial reading] Herrn P. Reichenbach Halberstadt Harz. Bismarckstr. [house number not securely legible] [Printed] Kollision bei nebligem Wetter. T. S. N. Serie 1418. (12 Muster)
English translation
Dear Papa, when are you coming? I chose the card myself. Many kisses, your Dolf. Address: Mr. P. Reichenbach, Halberstadt, Harz, Bismarck Street. [House number not securely legible.] Printed title: Collision in Foggy Weather. T.S.N., series 1418 (12 designs).
Working transcription and English translation prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive from the supplied scan, 14 September 2026. English punctuation has been supplied for readability.
Text note
Partial reading only. The smaller writing along the left edge and beside the dividing line is visible in the scan but has not been securely transcribed. No missing words or postal date have been reconstructed.
- Archive reference
- RB-SCAN-049
- Date
- Undated; early twentieth century
- Medium
- Printed picture postcard with pencil handwriting
- Digital image
- 3308 × 2152 pixels
- Evidence status
- Historical postcard; partial transcription; attribution to Dolf and Paul supported by the written names and family context
- Uncertainty
- No date or place of writing has been established. The handwriting and Dolf's 1914 birth suggest a childhood message, plausibly in the 1920s; this is an inference, not a dated record. The marginal additions, house number and dark circular mark remain unresolved. The physical pairing of the two supplied scans is provisional.
- Source and provenance
- Scans supplied by Daniel Reichenbach on 14 September 2026 as Scan.jpeg (message and address) and Scan 1.jpeg (picture). Catalogued together as the apparent two sides of one postcard; the physical pairing has not yet been separately confirmed.
- Credit
- Reichenbach Family Archive; postcard published by Theodor Stroefer, Nuremberg (T.S.N.); picture tentatively attributed to Alfred Jansen.
- Rights
- Family-supplied historical scans published at the archive owner's request. No separate reuse licence is asserted for the postcard artwork.
- Image treatment
- Full-resolution scan rotated 90° clockwise for upright viewing and saved as PNG. No cropping, retouching, tonal adjustment or generative alteration. The original JPEG is preserved separately; small gallery previews are display derivatives.
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Identification and context
The library's separate postcard identifies the publisher abbreviation; its date does not date this card. The dealer's title is an artist-attribution lead, not independent proof of a specific artist biography or named shipwreck.
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How to cite this object
Chicago-style suggested citation
Reichenbach Family Archive. ““Dear Papa” — a postcard signed Dolf.” Undated; early twentieth century. RB-SCAN-049. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-scan-049.
Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-scan-049