5963 - Portage la Prairie - Harvest Scene

Christmas postcards


Postcards used at Christmas, whether or not they were especially designed for that use.

09 Jun 2013

284 visits

5963 - Portage la Prairie - Harvest Scene

Russell, Lang & Co. card no. 5963 with "Season's Greetings" message, showing two scenes in and around Portage la Prairie, Man. The card was posted on Christmas Day, 1903 at Portage to Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Fraser, 82 Shakespeare Road, Draton Park, Hanwell W., England. It is signed "E. R. Robinson" as seen above. This is one of the Russell, Lang cards that is really, to all appearances at least, an issue or reissue of a Detroit Photographic Co. card.

07 Jan 2014

316 visits

5989 - The Merchant's Bank - Post Office

Russell, Lang & Co. card (as apparently republished from the Detroit Photographic Co. original -- no. 5989) and turned into a Christmas greeting card. It's an undivided back, likely from 1901 or 1902 but not dated or posted.

03 Mar 2014

324 visits

Holy Trinity Church [reverse]

Back of the Holy Trinity card, printed with Christmas greetings for 1906 from Mr. & Mrs E. A. Windross of Rabbit Point on Lake Manitoba.

29 Jul 2014

309 visits

Old Fort Garry Gateway, Winnipeg, Man.

Russell, Lang & Co. no. 674, unused -- a rebranded Warwick Bros. & Rutter card. Card with holly and the word Greetings right in the design, as well as an additional printed wish.

21 Aug 2014

261 visits

3940. Hands Across the Sea. [Pugh]

"Christmas Greetings to you all, Your affectionate Brother, Robert" Not postally used. Published for Pugh, Toronto. Printed in Great Britain.

17 Jan 2016

158 visits

6144. My dear little friend...

One of W. G. MacFarlane's "Santa Claus Series", no 108. This was a U.S. series that MacFarlane sold in Canada.

04 Jun 2016

1 favorite

195 visits

7120. University of New Brunswick - Fredericton, N.B. [Christmas Greetings]

Warwick Bros. & Rutter, number on front missing due to some surface loss. Posted Dec. 22, 1905 to Miss Rose Bryant, c/o Rev. Dr. Stewart, Sackville, N.B.