- Postcards
Postcard
Color postcard.
- Accession Number 2013.30.04.506
- Fabricant / Éditeur Montreal Import Co.
- Medium and Support ink, cardboard
- Technique industrial process
- Measurements 8,8 x 13,7 cm
Historical context
For years, before the inauguration of long-distance passenger transport, trains carried goods and merchandise, as shown on the postcard opposite. With the advent of mass travel, these industrial goods came to compete with passengers. That all changed when the black Pullman porter was introduced to Canada on the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR). In 1865, the GTR joined forces with the American Pullman Palace Car Company, a company specializing in...
- Accession Number 2013.30.04.506
- Fabricant / Éditeur Montreal Import Co.
- Medium and Support ink, cardboard
- Technique industrial process
- Measurements 8,8 x 13,7 cm
© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, Christian Paquin Collection, 2013.030.004.506
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