The description on the front of the card:
Ram Island. Painesville, Ohio.
Postmark Date: October 22, 1907
Era: Undivided Back Era
Condition: Used
Ram Island is located in the Grand River and is currently part of Fairport Harbor, Ohio, a suburb of Painesville.
Publisher: The Rochester News Company, Rochester, New York / American News Company
Printed in: Leipzig, Dresden
The Rochester News Co. of New York is a publisher of New York State and Pennsylvania view-cards for the American News Co. The company was established in 1902.
The American News Company was founded by Sinclair Tousey in 1864. It became a major distributor of postcards, magazines, newspapers, books, and comic books through a national network of more than 300 affiliated news agencies.
They mostly covered New York and the mid-Atlantic region. Nearly all of their output was in view-cards. Most of their cards were printed in Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin, Germany. After the start of the first world war, they, like many publishers, switched to American and French printers.
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Rights Info: Public Domain
