A view across Lake Pepin from a rocky, wave-washed shore, with boulders in the foreground and a low, tree-lined far bank under a pale pink sky. The caption places the scene at Lake City, Minnesota, on the lake's western shore. Lake Pepin is a wide natural widening of the Mississippi River between Minnesota and Wisconsin, known for its bluffs and summer resorts. Lake City, settled in the 1850s, became a steamboat landing and resort town in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Series
No. 4922
Condition
Good
Notes
Undivided-back era card; red printed caption "VIEW ON LAKE PEPIN, LAKE CITY, MINN." and number No. 4922; pink-tinted sky; worn corners and light edge soiling.
No postmark; unused card. Undivided back ("This Space for Address only."), stamp box with 1c rate for domestic, island possessions, Canadian and Mexican, and 2c foreign — circa 1901-1907 era. Light soiling and edge wear; no handwriting.
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View on Lake Pepin, Lake City, Minnesota, circa 1905, postcard, c. 1901. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/view-on-lake-pepin-lake-city-minnesota-circa-1905. Accessed November 2, 2026.
