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

Unused.

The picture

A grassy riverbank at a park landing: a launch with seated passengers and moored rowboats at a plank dock at left, men in dark suits standing on the bank, a dog on the dock, and a group of women in white with a parasol under large trees at right.

• Printed caption: BOAT LANDING AT YOSTS PARK, BETWEEN JANESVILLE AND BELOIT.
• Publisher: E. C. KROPP CO., PUB. MILWAUKEE, NO. 4839 (printed vertically up the left edge)
• Number: 4839
• Printing: colored halftone · color
• Condition: light corner wear

The back

• Layout: divided back (message at left, address at right)
• Printed: Post Card · This Space for Address only.
• Stamp box: PLACE POSTAGE HERE / DOMESTIC / IS. POSSESSIONS / CANADIAN / MEXICAN } 1c / FOREIGN 2c
• Condition: even toning, darker at the corners

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 (front of the card, sky, just above the caption, faint pencil):

H[illegible][?]

A later hand (pencil dealer note, lower left corner): Dealer '706

A later hand (pencil dealer code, lower left corner, second line): 16-80

A later hand (pencil price, $1.00, underlined, lower left corner, third line): 1⁰⁰

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
message	single reader	claude
signature	in message

Uncertain readings:

• front, pencil above the caption: H[illegible] (or Hogan, Hagert) — a very faint pencil word of about five letters; only the capital is fairly clear
• later hand, line 1: Dealer '706 (or Dealer 1706) — the mark before 706 may be an apostrophe or a 1

Reader's note: Unused: no stamp, postmark, address or message. Same picture, caption and Kropp number 4839 as the other Yost's Park boat-landing cards.

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 - B - 01.png and Boat Landing at Yosts Park, between Janesville and Beloit - B - 02.png (sha256 e77b72aac1a1…, f70e4de528e1…). Media: front — the scan, byte for byte; back — the scan, byte for byte