This book of photography originated with a picture postcard printed at Erik Söderströms bookshop in Porvoo, mailed to Turku in June of 1903, and discovered a hundred years later in the card collection of a Helsinki antique shop. Over the years, increasing numbers of Erik Söderströms Porvoo townscapes surfaced and, as they did, interest in them grew. Eventually the idea emerged to put together a book featuring these photographs. This effort led to an extensive survey ot the work of two turn-of-the-century Porvoo photographers of local people and places, the publication of this volume.