Man at desk in office with farm advertisements, January 1910, Nebraska

A man sits at a paper-filled desk in a narrow, board-lined office, turning toward the camera with a pen in hand. Ledgers and loose papers are stacked above the desk. A wall telephone and an oil lamp hang nearby, while daylight enters through the window at his side.

The walls carry advertisements for manure spreaders and Rock Island Plow Company implements, public-sale notices, calendars and a large map. A freestanding rack holds cartons labeled “Standard Stock Food” and “Standard Worm Powder.” These displays suggest a farm-supply business, although neither the establishment nor the seated man is identified on the card.

The supplied identification places the photograph in Milford, Nebraska, in January 1910. Several wall calendars display that month and year. Milford also appears in the postal address, but the reverse does not independently identify the photographed office. No photographer or publisher is credited.

The card was mailed to Mrs Rose Mundhenke at Milford with a green one-cent Franklin stamp and a July 1910 Nebraska cancellation. The postmark town is only partly legible. A message signed “Gertrude B.” discusses cultivating, strawberries, putting up beans and cutting wheat—a household account closely related to the agricultural goods advertised in the photograph.