Postcard
Sepia postcard with handwritten inscriptions.
- Accession Number 2013.30.02.391
- Date 1971 an
- Medium and Support ink, cardboard
- Technique genuine photo
- Measurements 9 x 14 cm
Historical context
At the beginning of the last century, with successive epidemics, Quebec began to maintain a series of sanatoriums in the province. The Saint-Joseph sanatorium hospital shown on the postcard is the Rosemont pavilion of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital. It opened in 1950, making it one of the last facilities built in the city to provide relief from consumption or tuberculosis. Decades earlier, even before the advent of antibiotics, sanator...
- Accession Number 2013.30.02.391
- Date 1971 an
- Medium and Support ink, cardboard
- Technique genuine photo
- Measurements 9 x 14 cm
© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, Christian Paquin Collection, 2013.030.002.391
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