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- Brampton
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Brampton
Brampton
- NT Coleraine
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Item consists of a postcard of the east side of Main Street South, looking south towards John Street.
Item consists of a postcard of Main Street North, looking south from the Canadian National Railways rail bridge.
Item consists of a colourized postcard of houses on Main Street South, south of Wellington Street East, across from Gage Park.
Item consists of a real photo postcard of Main Street North, Brampton, looking north.
Item consists of a postcard parodying the accent of a European immigrant.
This generic postcard design is known to have been used in the United States as well. (Bryon L. Reppert, "Postcard History Series: Mechanicsburg", (Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing), 2010, page 18.)
Fonds consists of records created or collected by the Walker family of Brampton, including Harry Walker who ran a shoe store at 17 Main Street South. Fonds includes an early photograph of Harry Walker inside the store which was in operation during from at least 1933 (possibly earlier) to at least 1987. (A second location of the store was on Queen Street West according to newspaper sources.)
Fonds also includes two photographs of the Ontario Bookbinder's Council 1953 -1954 on which William Walker served, a promotional leaflet from Charters Publishing Company, a copy of the Convervator from 1949 (the 75th Anniversary edition), a newsprint copy of Brampton bylaw 25-79, a photograph of McHugh Public School class (ca. 1930), a photo-mechanical reproduction of a photograph of a band, and newspaper clippings relating to printer's unions in Brampton, McHugh Public School, and other local places and events.
Item consists of a postcard of Main Street South, looking south. Image includes a billboard for J. G. Taylor Men's Furnishings and Senate Cigar Store, with the image of a pack of Wrigley's Spearmint gum.
Item consists of a postcard of tree-shrouded houses on Main Street South, opposite Gage Park. There may be a greenhouse indicated in the background.
Item consists of a postcard of a residential area on Main Street North, presumably north of Church Street.
Item consists of a real photo postcard of Brampton.
Item consists of a real photo postcard of the residential area on Main Street North, Brampton, above Chapel Street.
Item consists of a real photo postcard of the residential area on Main Street North, above Church Street.
Item consists of a postcard of Main Street South, looking north from John Street.