Guelph in postcards

Postcard images of Guelph's (old) city hall are, not surprisingly, pretty common. In their heyday (roughly the Edwardian era), picture postcards of the Royal City often included the city hall. After all, it was a significant civic building and, thus, the kind of image that collectors and tourists tended to favour.

However, picture postcards of the same building continued ...

This rare and appealing postcard provides an image of an older woman seated outside in a rocking chair in the sunshine, wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe. Her hands are folded, her look serious (as it might be for a formal portrait). She looks straight at the camera lens but remains enigmatic.

Guelph's third Old Home Week took place from August 1 through 8, 1927, and it took a lot of effort! One of the people who worked in a booth on the occasion wrote about it on a postcard to her aunt as follows: Dear Aunt and all—Just a card to let you know I arrived here safely. I haven’t time to write a letter for I am working day and night. This is the old Boys reunion here th...