Boat Landing at Yosts Park, between Janesville and Beloit

Mailed 22 Oct. 1908 from Beloit. From Nellie Jury[?] to Mr. Vernon Jury, Harvard.

The picture

A grassy riverbank with a plank landing and short dock; people sit in a large boat at left while a man stands on its stern, two men and a boy stand on the bank looking at the water, a dog stands on the dock, and a group of women in white with parasols stands at right under large trees.

• Printed caption: BOAT LANDING AT YOSTS PARK, BETWEEN JANESVILLE AND BELOIT.
• Publisher: E. C. KROPP CO. PUB. MILWAUKEE. No. 4830[?] (printed sideways up the left edge)
• Number: 4830[?]
• Printing: colored halftone · color
• Postmark ink on the picture: a scatter of small dark specks across the sky, upper center; not a recognizable postmark
• Condition: light corner wear; faint specks in the sky

The back

• Layout: divided back (message at left, address at right)
• Printed: Post Card · This Space for Address only.
• Stamp: 1c, green, Franklin
• Postmark: BELOIT / OCT 22 / 9-AM / 19 08 / WIS. (machine cancel with straight-bar killer)
• Condition: toning; a small brown stain in the message area; the message runs off the bottom edge of the card

Exact copy

Line for line as written. [?] follows an uncertain word; [illegible] marks one that cannot be read; ~~ ~~ is crossed out, ^ ^ written above the line, […] runs off the card.

Message (back of the card, left half, written sideways, reading downward (turn the card 90 degrees counterclockwise to read); first line next to the dividing line):

Dear brother:- Oct. 19, 190[…]
Your Pa + Ma arrived
here alright but they
had to walk from th[…]
car line because they did-
not let us know that they
were coming by "freight." We
expected they would driv[…]
Nellie Jury[?]
[illegible] Beloit Wis. Bo[?] [illegible]

Address:

Mr. Vernon Jury
Harvard
Ill.
R.F.D. No 1
H[?] Clra[?] E. Pulse.

Reading version

The message joined into sentences, the spelling lightly modernized only where it helps; uncertain words keep their marks.

Dear brother, Oct. 19, 190[…]. Your Pa and Ma arrived here alright but they had to walk from th[e] car line because they did not let us know that they were coming by "freight." We expected they would driv[e][…] Nellie Jury[?], [illegible] Beloit, Wis., Bo[?] [illegible]

Who

• Vernon Jury — recipient, Harvard, Ill., R.F.D. No. 1
• Clra[?] E. Pulse — named in the address, apparently the household the card is sent in care of, Harvard, Ill., R.F.D. No. 1
• Nellie Jury[?] — sender, Beloit, Wis.
• Pa and Ma — the recipient's parents, who arrived at the sender's, Beloit, Wis.

When

How	Date	Basis
filename	1908-10-22	the date in the scan's file name
postmark	1908-10-22	postmark, as read: the day the card was mailed, not the day the picture was made
written	Oct. 19, 190[…] (the last digit runs off the edge)	a date written by the sender
card-features	after 1907-03-01	divided back: allowed in the US from 1 Mar. 1907

The readings

Part	Status	Readers
caption	all agree	claude, gemini, gpt
postmark	all agree	claude, gemini, gpt
address	majority	claude, gemini, gpt
message	majority	claude, gemini, gpt
signature	in message	claude

Uncertain readings:

• address, last line: H Clra E. Pulse (or c/o Ira E. Pulse, Clara E. Pulse, Ora E. Pulse) — the first mark is a small detached H-like sign, perhaps a care-of mark, and the given name is a looped capital followed by 'ra'
• message, signature: Nellie Jury (or Nellie Jury (surname partly hidden)) — the surname is overwritten by the 'Beloit' of the line below
• message, last line: [illegible] Beloit Wis. Bo[?] [illegible] (or … Beloit Wis. Box …) — the line sits on the card's left edge and its start and end are cut off; the first characters look like '2x0 0'
• message, date: Oct. 19, 190[…] — the year's last digit is at the edge; it looks like 8 but is partly cut
• front, publisher imprint number: 4830 (or 4839) — the last figure is small and blurred; it could be a 0 or a 9

Reader's note: The message mentions the 'car line', the streetcar or interurban line: the parents arrived and walked from it. It says nothing about Yost Park itself. Message lines run off the bottom edge of the card, so line ends are lost.

Other copies of this view

Scans of the same printed picture that are not cards of this collection (matched by picture fingerprint):

• 1909 Boat Landing Yosts Park WI Wisconsin Kropp Co (A2)-b.png — source, back
• 1909 Boat Landing Yosts Park WI Wisconsin Kropp Co (A2).png — source, front
• postcard-yost-park.png — source, front
• postcard-kropp-4839-boat-landing-at-yosts-park-copy-2 (postcard-kropp-4839-boat-landing-at-yosts-park-copy-2-back.png) — vault image, back
• postcard-kropp-4839-boat-landing-at-yosts-park-copy-2 (postcard-kropp-4839-boat-landing-at-yosts-park-copy-2-front.png) — vault image, front
• postcard-kropp-4839-boat-landing-at-yosts-park (postcard-kropp-4839-boat-landing-at-yosts-park.jpg) — vault image, front

Scans: 1908-10-22 - Boat Landing at Yosts Park, between Janesville and Beloit - 01.png and 1908-10-22 - Boat Landing at Yosts Park, between Janesville and Beloit - 02.png (sha256 ee040ca7c752…, 8b8b65a09105…). Media: front — the scan, byte for byte; back — the scan, byte for byte