A Train - Barely

I guess that sometimes I got a bit desperate when it came to collecting the post cards in my collection. There are over 3,000 in the collection and, when I looked at this one, I asked myself, "Self, why did you add this one? That train is barely in the picture." Then I turned the post card over

and saw that the reason for collecting it is not in the scene; it is on the back. This post card was made using the first ever invented method for developing pictures under artificial light!!
The Eastman Kodak company owned the rights to the process when this post card was made. The company came up with some codes to help us

know the approximate era the photos were developed. You can clearly see that the VELOX method has been used. The code for the time frame is in the four corners of the little box where the postage stamp should be placed. The diamonds in the four corners indicate that this was printed between 1907 and 1914.

Here is a little bit of information about the inventor of the VELOX method. It is taken from here: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Baekeland#ref22160
Leo Baekeland, in full Leo Hendrik Baekeland, (born November 14, 1863, Ghent, Belgium—died February 23, 1944, Beacon, New York, U.S.), U.S. industrial chemist who helped found the modern plastics industry through his invention of Bakelite, the first thermosetting plastic (a plastic that does not soften when heated).

Baekeland received his doctorate maxima cum laude from the University of Ghent at the age of 21 and taught there until 1889, when he went to the U.S. and joined a photographic firm. He soon set up his own company to manufacture his invention, Velox, a photographic paper that could be developed under artificial light. Velox was the first commercially successful photographic paper. In 1899 Baekeland sold his company and rights to the paper to the U.S. inventor George Eastman for somewhere near $1,000,000 [at the beginning of the 20th century!].

And this is the front of the post card. You know everything that I know about the picture.