Pennant cards

This is an interesting Stedman card, unrecorded in the Stedman book, although an identical "Series 13" card sporting a Portage & Main image is depicted there. The card is addressed but not stamped. The message reads: "Winnipeg, Man. Will go down to see you as soon as I get home. Hoping you are all well. Best Love, James." The addressee is Miss Ardienne [sic] Rochon, Beauharnois, Que. The image is surprisingly unusual -- taken from atop the Union Station and looking north. You would think that you would see this a lot, given that it is an important stretch of the city's most important street (Main Street), but I don't think I have seen this angle before. Perhaps the management of Union Station weren't accommodating to postcard photographers. Interestingly this seems to be from a sheet of postcards that have been photographed in order to produce smaller versions. At left you can see the edge of a card showing Eaton's.

I've had this one for a long time but just happened to come across it for the first time in a long while. Note that, although it's a Stedman card (with Stedman being described as "Brantford & Winnipeg"), the framed view is one of the Pugh "1000" series (# 1000/14), evidently cut from a sheet of reductions of those cards as you can see another card's title along the bottom of this image: "C.P.R. Station and Hotel, Winnipeg, Man." (that card, which I have, is no. 23). In fact, you can see how they've made the reductions: they've placed cards side by side and photographed them from above (the lower right corner of the inset card here touches the corners of three other cards at the extreme lower right of the inset). Smith's Stedman book does list a pennant card of Winnipeg in this series, but the image is of Portage & Main, looking west. It looks like a Stedman image rather than another image from this Pugh series. I also have this one in the series, which doesn't seem to be a Pugh card either -- looks like a RPPC from someone else: www.ipernity.com/doc/wintorbos/23124689//in/album/447203