There are some squiggly lines written on the back of the print that I assume are words, but they're so indistinct that I'm not even going to try and translate. There is, however, a printer's stamp that's quite easy to understand. "Foto-Thiele m h922 a.d. Kaisereiche" And not one, but two dates. The handwritten one, "6-7-55." And the stamped one, "24.6.55" So, processed June 24, 1955, but dated July 6, 1955? It makes me think this woman might be an American living in Germany. The stamp is in the European style, with the date before the month, while the handwritten date, in the American style, so actually June 6, 1955, the date the photo was actually taken. In 1955 there was still a lot of American military and diplomatic personnel living in Germany. So, why the title? Well, I assumed that Kaisereiche was a street somewhere in Germany. I did a quick internet search and discovered that it's a district in Berlin named for an oak tree planted by German nobility that still survives to this day.
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