Mirror Photo of Man Smoking and Playing Cards

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of back to the camera - one or more subjects have their backs to the camera.

This is a photo of a man with a mustache who is smoking a cigarette or cigar and is sitting at a table as he pretends to play cards with four other versions of himself.

This type of trick photo, which is sometimes called a multigraph or photo-multigraph, used mirrors to make it look like a set of quintuplets was seated around a table. The actual man is sitting with his back to the camera, and the other images are his reflections in the mirrors.

The distinctive table covering visible in this picture -- with a fringe of tassels dangling over the side -- identifies the photo as one that came from the White Way Photo Studio in New York City.

This is a real photo postcard with no address, message, postmark, or other identifying details. On the back of the card is an Azo stamp box design (with squares in all four corners) that suggests a time frame that may range from 1924 to 1949.