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Postcard: Rock River Looking North from Main Bridge, Beloit, Wis. (unused)

Opening

Rock River Looking North from Main Bridge, Beloit, Wis.

Unused.

Card pc-054 · not mailed · front

The picture side

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 written side

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]