"The Saskatoon Post Office"
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| Database ID | 36123 | |
| Institution | Saskatoon Public Library Local History Room | |
| Fonds/Collection | General Photographs Collection | |
| File/Item Reference | Post Office, PH-2004-39 (Subject Collection) | |
| Postcard message | Arrived home all safe in time for supper and had a lovely trip. I hope you are all well as it [?] us all. Mrs. S. Caswell. | |
| Scope and content | Monotone postcard with sepia tone showing the brick post office at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, built 1909 at 158 1st Avenue South on the corner of 21st Street East. The Clinkskill Block (118 21st Street) is visible to the right of the photograph. In 1930 the post office moved to the Federal Building; this building taken over by RCMP (1933) and later Caswell's (1939), before it was torn down to make way for the Royal Bank in the early 1980s. Title from front of postcard; information from Local History Room catalog. | |
| Physical description/extent | 1 postcard; 8.5 x 14 cm | |
| Date postcard sent | [4 August 1911] | |
| Date produced | [ca. 1911] | |
| Date Range(s) | 1900-1909 1910-1919 | |
| Copyright holder | Public domain | |
| Subjects | Buildings and Architecture -- Post Offices | |
| Language of postcard text | English | |
| Language of card | English | |
| Postcard style | divided back | |
| Postcard media | photo-engraving | |
| Place - image | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada | |
| Place - destination | Nichu, North Dakota, United States of America | |
| Permanent Link | http://digital.scaa.sk.ca/gallery/postcards/permalink/36123
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