A real photo postcard documents a painted carnival cutout display featuring four characters from the Book of Esther, their painted bodies fitted with openings through which real faces of participants are photographed. An unidentified man in a dark suit stands at the right edge of the display, holding a palette or papers, likely the artist. The figures are labeled in painted text across the lower register: Ahasveros, Esther, Haman, and Mardechai. A stamped imprint reading "GOTZE" appears in the lower right corner of the image.

Each painted character is rendered in a theatrical folk style: Ahasveros is seated on a throne wearing a crown with two small dogs at his feet, Esther stands in an ornate headdress and corset with a small puppy on a lead, Haman wears a plumed hat and a tunic bearing a swastika, and Mardechai rides a white horse. A gallows is visible in the painted background behind Haman. A patterned rug or textile drapes across the foreground.

The Purim holiday traditionally involves costumed pageantry and satirical representations of the Esther narrative. The swastika on Haman's costume, used here as an antisemitic symbol of villainy rather than its ancient form, places this display firmly in the context of Nazi-era awareness, consistent with the reverse notation dating of 4/17/09, though the visual content suggests a later interwar production.

The reverse bears a cursive inscription reading "Hartloge" and penciled notations "4/17/09" and "LOBCEZ" with additional numerals.