wintorbos' photos with the keyword: c. s. co.

C. S. Co. card no. 508, new condition, unused, showing the trading floor of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, c. 1908. This was in the new building at Lombard Av. and Rorie St.

This is just one panel of what would have been a multi-panel Winnipeg card likely by C. S. Co. (although the back of this section of the card is not the panel with the publisher information or the address). The message reads, October 32, November 1, 1908: Once again it is hello Cousin Louise. Received your card of the old wreck are you there yourself? If you are you don't look like any of our family. Suppose you will laugh at the idea of us calling this a city but it really extends farther in the opposite direction than the way it is taken, however we will not compare it with New York at all. Warren."

C. S. Co. card no. 118, unrecorded. A familiar view across the top of the McIntyre Block.

This is almost certainly a C.S. Co. card, although it is marked only with the distributor initials "L.R. 1475". Souch's C.S. Co. booklet records an "L.R." in Moose Jaw and while card 1475 is not recorded, card 1476 *is* in the list and is also an "L.R." from Moose Jaw. Presumably "L.R." is "Lewis Rice". The postcard has a Moose Jaw & Calgary R.P.O. postmark dated June 9, 1909 and is addressed to someone whose name looks like Mr. Lee Silliman Jr. of Toulon, Illinois, which is over by the Iowa border. It reads: "Moose Jaw - Dear Nephew, I remember once upon a [time] you wrote me a letter and I will now send you a card from the fields of Canada. There is just lots of beautiful prairie and it looks like a good chance for a young man to raise wheat in [?] a good time, Your aunt, Sarah."