East Grand Avenue, Beloit, Wis.

Unused.

The picture

Looking along a business street with streetcar tracks: at left a corner building with a large painted wall advertising a bakery and Owl cigars, then an arched-window block with a red-and-white striped awning, a red brick block and a long brick block with a 5-10 Cent Store sign; at right a turreted corner building and further brick blocks; a horse-drawn wagon in the distance.

• Printed caption: East Grand Avenue, Beloit, Wis.
• Printing: colored halftone · color
• Lettering in the picture: BAKER[Y?] (wall sign, left); OWL CIGARS NOW (wall sign with an owl's eyes and a clock face); 5-10 CENT STORE; SIGNS; [illegible] (round sign at right edge)
• Condition: light corner wear, lower left

The back

• Layout: divided back (message at left, address at right)
• Printed: POST CARD (green, with a cross-shaped emblem lettered C C C C between the words) · This side for address
• Stamp box: Place Postage Stamp Here / Domestic and Canada One Cent / Foreign Two Cents
• Condition: light even toning; a small break in the dividing line near the top

Who

• F. M. Palmiter — publisher (printed), Janesville, Wis.

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, wall sign: BAKER (or BAKERY) — the sign is cut by the left edge of the picture

Reader's note: Unused. The left-hand buildings (arched-window block, striped awning, bakery wall sign, SIGNS shop) appear to be the same row seen in the 'Grand Avenue from Bridge' view (pc-021), from a slightly different angle, with different wall advertising.

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