Grand Avenue, Beloit, Wis.

Unused.

The picture

Looking down Grand Avenue between two- and three-story commercial blocks: awnings and hanging signs on both sides, curving street-railway tracks, a horse and covered carriage at left, wagons in the middle distance, a block with a small cupola at the far end, under a blue sky shading to pink at the horizon.

• Printed caption: 2977. Grand Avenue, Beloit, Wis.
• Number: 2977
• Printing: colored halftone · color
• Lettering in the picture: […]ES (awning, far left); CHIROPRACTIC INFIRMARY (hanging sign, left); CANDY (awning, left); […]UNGER'S RESTAURANT (sign, right)
• Condition: light corner wear; some color banding in the street area of the scan

The back

• Layout: divided back (message at left, address at right)
• Printed: Post Card · THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS.
• Stamp box: PLACE STAMP HERE DOMESTIC ONE CENT FOREIGN TWO CENTS
• Condition: light toning; a small patch of pinkish-brown speckling at the left in the message area; light soiling at the edges

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	majority	claude, gemini, gpt
signature	in message

Reader's note: Unused: no stamp, postmark, address or message. Back printed in red-brown: an ornamental 'Post Card' heading, 'THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS.', a vertical dividing line, and a ruled stamp box.

Scans: Grand Avenue, Beloit, Wis. - 01.png and Grand Avenue, Beloit, Wis. - 02.png (sha256 423a144ec615…, d440f99cc3d7…). Media: front — the scanner's white edge trimmed: kept pixels [0, 0, 1080, 688]; back — the scanner's white edge trimmed: kept pixels [0, 0, 1078, 688]