Boat Landing at Yosts Park, between Janesville and Beloit (A)

Unused.

The picture

A grassy riverbank with a wooden boat landing: a short dock runs out into the river with a dog walking on it; a man stands on the bow of a large launch moored at left, in which several passengers sit; rowboats are pulled up along the shore. On the lawn two men in dark suits and hats stand looking at the water, one with a child in white; at right under big trees a group of women in white dresses, one with a red parasol, stand by the water. The far shore is a low line of trees.

• Printed caption: BOAT LANDING AT YOSTS PARK, BETWEEN JANESVILLE AND BELOIT.
• Publisher: printed sideways up the left edge in red and mostly trimmed off; only the tops of the letters show, read as 'E. C. KROPP[?] ... 4920[?]'
• Number: 4920[?]
• Printing: colored halftone · color
• Condition: light corner wear; faint horizontal banding in the scan; the left edge trimmed through the imprint

The back

• Layout: divided back (message at left, address at right)
• Printed: Post Card · PLACE POSTAGE HERE · DOMESTIC / IS. POSSESSIONS / CANADIAN / MEXICAN } 1c · FOREIGN 2c · This Space for Address only.
• Stamp box: PLACE POSTAGE HERE / DOMESTIC / IS. POS- / SESSIONS / CANADIAN / MEXICAN 1c / FOREIGN 2c
• Condition: even toning; a small dark speck at right center

Who

• No one is named on the card.

When

How	Date	Basis
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
signature	in message

Uncertain readings:

• front, left-edge imprint: E. C. KROPP ... 4920 — the imprint is trimmed away; only the upper parts of the letters and numbers remain

Reader's note: Unused: no stamp, postmark, address or message. The caption names Yost's Park ('YOSTS PARK') between Janesville and Beloit; the scene is its boat landing.

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: Boat Landing at Yosts Park, between Janesville and Beloit - A - 01.png and Boat Landing at Yosts Park, between Janesville and Beloit - A - 02.png (sha256 08ac2f47cd93…, 04cebc7d8703…). Media: front — the scan, byte for byte; back — the scan, byte for byte