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Author Name
Anderson, Allan and Tomlinson, Betty.
Title GREETINGS FROM CANADA: AN ALBUM OF UNIQUE CANADIAN POSTCARDS FROM THE EDWARDIAN ERA 1900-1916. (POST CARDS)
Binding Soft Cover
Book Condition Very Good
Edition First Edition
Publisher Toronto Macmillan of Canada 1978
ISBN Number
0770517218 / 9780770517212
Seller ID 28566
188 pp, oblong (9" H x 11 1/2" D). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "The period between 1900 and 1916 was the golden age of the picture postcard in Canada; the craftsmanship evident in hand-tinted and lithographed 'postals' was never surpassed , the craze for collecting and sending them never so widespread. (T)hese postcards present an enchantingly candid portrait of Edwardian Canada and its citizens." Chapter headings: Towns and Villages; Fairs and Exhibitions; I Love a Parade; School Days; Fire!; Indians and Esquimaux; Breaking the Sod; A Special Breed; Remembering the Farm; To Market, To Market; Habitant Life; Felling the Timber; Working the Mines; The Klondike; Days of Sail; Harvesting the Sea; Steamboat Round the Bend; The Iron Horse; Bird's-Eye Views; The Big City; The Soft Sell; Golden Summers; Summer Sports; When Woollies Were Worn; Winter Sports; Romance on Wheels; A Woman's Place; A Man's Politics; Unfurl the Flag; Spit and Polish; Riders of the Plains; Novelties; Banish the Bar; Innocent Laughter; The Look of the People. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, two tiny corner creases.
Post
Cards,
Postcards,
Correspondence,
Collectibles,
Collecting,
Postal,
Edwardian,
Canadian,
Fairs,
Exhibitions,
Parades,
Schools,
Lumber,
Mines,
Klondike,
Fishing,
Steamboats,
Locomotives,
Cities,
Stores,
Sports,
Patriotic,
Romantic,
Postal
Cards,
Canada,
Description,
Travel,
Souvenirs,
Views,
Comic,
Temperance,
Winter,
Tourism,
Farms,
Farming,
Habitants,
Political,
Politics,
Prairies.
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