Sources / Postcards of Yost Park and Beloit (private collection)
Postcard: Rock River Looking North from Main Bridge, Beloit, Wis. (unused)
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Rock River Looking North from Main Bridge, Beloit, Wis.
Unused.
Card pc-054 · not mailed · front
The picture
A calm river flows away from the viewer between banks of dense trees and bushes; a wooded point juts in from the right; a single thin pole rises above the trees at right; large pale clouds in a green-blue sky.
- Printed caption: Rock River Looking North from Main Bridge, Beloit, Wis.
- Printing: colored halftone · color
- Condition: light wear on the edges
Card pc-054 · not mailed · back
The back
- Layout: divided back (message at left, address at right)
- Printed: Post Card · THIS SPACE MAY BE USED FOR CORRESPONDENCE · FOR ADDRESS ONLY
- Stamp box: PLACE / STAMP HERE / DOMESTIC / ONE CENT / FOREIGN / TWO CENTS
- Condition: uniform toning; the front caption shows through faintly, reversed, along the bottom edge
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:
- later hand, top: 10 (or 10c, 1c) — faint pencil; the second figure is a small raised loop
Reader's note: Unused: no stamp, postmark, address or message. No publisher is printed on either side.
Scans: Rock River Looking North from Main Bridge, Beloit, Wis. - 01.png and Rock River Looking North from Main Bridge, Beloit, Wis. - 02.png (sha256 04acc5225afd…, aa0652592659…). Media: front — the scanner's white edge trimmed: kept pixels [0, 0, 1088, 683]; back — the scanner's white edge trimmed: kept pixels [0, 0, 1091, 687]