River Valley Overlook from Wooded Hillside

Unused.

The picture

From a grassy, wooded hilltop with flowering shrubs (pink and orange blossoms) a man in a white shirt and straw boater sits on the grass looking out over a broad river valley: a winding river with islands and side channels, flat green meadows, a light-colored road or path at the foot of the slope, and a line of trees and low hills on the horizon under a pink-and-blue sky.

• Printing: white border · color
• Condition: light wear at the edges; small dark specks at the right border

The back

• Layout: divided back (message at left, address at right)
• Printed: 730 · POST CARD
• Stamp box: E C K Co (in the corners) A NATURAL COLOR POST CARD
• Condition: light toning; clean otherwise

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
card-features	after 1915 to before 1930	white-border era (about 1915 to 1930)

The readings

Part	Status	Readers
signature	in message

Uncertain readings:

• later hand, top left: 150 (or 1.50, 15C) — partly cut off at the corner
• later hand, right edge: NKU-3-20- (or NKV-3-20-, HKU-3-20-) — the first letters are written quickly

Reader's note: Unused, and the front has no printed caption, so the place is not named on the card. The back's stamp box and side imprint ('Natural Color Post Card ... E. C. Kropp Co.') are printed in blue.

Scans: River Valley Overlook from Wooded Hillside - 01.png and River Valley Overlook from Wooded Hillside - 02.png (sha256 96c39c5fc11a…, ea08ecdc460c…). Media: front — the scanner's white edge trimmed: kept pixels [0, 0, 1100, 672]; back — the scan, byte for byte