"Next year these young men expect to cut off their 'tails' and adopt foreign clothes. Tzechow dandies, about 1905." Two stylish young men are shown posing for a photo. One wears a Western necktie.
"Ankwe pagans" Four men of the Ankwe or Goemai people, one on horseback, posed for the camera in a village. They wear distinctive woven cloths over their shoulders.
"Middle-class Chinese gentlemen, probably church members. Pre-1911." A group of businessmen and professionals are shown together wearing traditional clothing.
“Série XXVI. ̶ 2. Jeunne chrétien de la caste des Nayakers. Series XXVI. ̶ Young christian of the Nayakker caste.” A young Christian man from the Nayak caste is depicted. There is no handwriting on the back of the postcard.