Street = McDermot Avenue

Another very nicely coloured Valentine & Sons card, this time no. 101,395, showing McDermot Avenue looking west from Main Street along what was then Newspaper Row. You can see the Manitoba Free Press sign extending from one of the buildings on the north (right) side of the street. At the corner are the Dominion Bank (left) and Caldwell Block (right), both now just empty lots. This is one of the highest grade of coloured lithographs that you will see from that era. The card was addressed and a message written, although it does not appear to have been stamped or mailed. The addressee was Mr. J. P. Lemoine of Millbury, Mass., and the message is in French (and is actually just part of a message that was probably written across several card backs).

Unused.

This is a common image but I don't think I previously had it as part of the "Beautiful Manitoba Series" of Russell, Lang & Co. Postmarked (split-ring) at Reaburn, Manitoba on -- 16, 1907 to Mr. + Mrs. Earl, Conservative Club, Victoria Road, Stanford le Hope, Essex, England. Undivided back "Private Post Card"