The size is standard 31/2" x 5 ½". Inscribed, postally marked and cancelled. The obverse is a b/w photo of a train with two people riding on the bumper of the engine, coming out of a tunnel. The caption identifies the place as Pogranichnaya Station. The oval cancellation stamp on the verso is dated 4 May 1911 and has the name of the city Harbin, further identifying the place as a railway station on the Chinese Eastern Railway. The address has the honorific abbreviation "ЕВП" (Его Высокопрев&#

The size is standard 31/2" x 5 ½". Inscribed, postally marked and cancelled. The obverse is a b/w photo of a train with two people riding on the bumper of the engine, coming out of a tunnel. The caption identifies the place as Pogranichnaya Station. The oval cancellation stamp on the verso is dated 4 May 1911 and has the name of the city Harbin, further identifying the place as a railway station on the Chinese Eastern Railway. The address has the honorific abbreviation "ЕВП" (Его Высокопревосходительство), the full title used to address military or civil servants of the first or second rank.

In excellent condition. Both sides show negligibly little soiling, the corner bumps are tiny, the image is in very sharp focus and has only one scuff near the bottom, not too intrusive to the eye.

Pogranichnaya Station is actually a town in China, known as Suifenhe. Its growth and importance were fed by construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway after the Cino-Russian Treaty of 1896, extending the Trans-Siberian Railway into Harbin, and further, into Manchuria. Being the first station on the territory of China, Pogranichnaya / Suifenhe became an important multi-national trade hub.
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