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Postcards from the 1890s and early 1900s

Early View Cards

The series of view cards that are of greatest interest to me bear the “Private Mailing Card" back, which is available in two designs.

Cards from this series sometimes come with a W.G. MacFarlane publisher’s attribution that states "Canadian Souvenir Cards, W.G. MacFarlane, Toronto".

The earliest series?

View Cards with Private Mailing Card backs

W.G. MacFarlane appears to have used the earlier Private Mailing Card back on the Quebec Greetings series of cards, which dates back to Sept. 1901. The series which had a variety of scrollwork designs around the image on the card. This same scrollwork shows on a series of cards from Fredericton, NB. This later back dates from July 1902.

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QuebecGtgsStLouisGate.jpg
GreetingsFromQuebecCalecheB.jpg
MacFAngCathFredericton.jpg
MacFQueenSFredericton.jpg
MacFQueenSFrederictonB.jpg

Below are other view cards bearing the Private Mailing Card back.

Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
6 photos
Acadian
Acadian
2 photos
Newfoundland
Newfoundland
2 photos
Ontario
Ontario
4 photos
Canadian West
Canadian West
10 photos

The most common early back

Patriotic Postcards with Private Mailing Card backs

The postcard back shown at left is the most common of two Private Mailing Card backs (the other is shown above). At left, mailed to Bern, Switzerland on July 6, 1902.

MacFarlane_S24C_PrinceLodge-Switzerland.jpg
MacFarlaneS24C-Fleet.jpg
MacFarlaneS24B-25ToMontenegro1903.jpg

Above examples of early patriotic postcards are from Mike Smith’s Series 24B and 24C.

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