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Attractive postcard photo of crowd watching parade down 8th Avenue in Calgary. At bottom, man dressed in Roman toga, in a charriot pulled by 3 white horses. In front, wagon with musical band in uniform. Calgary Stampede?
Lots of advertising visible WARD’S GROCERY, THE F.F. HIGGS CALGARY FURNITURE STORE, CALGARY SADDLERY Co. Ltd, DRUGSTORE, PHOTO STEELE, HORSE SALES…
Labeled ‘No. 688A 8th Avenue, Calgary, Alta. ‘ Handwritten “8e Avenue”
Bottom right ‘THOMPSON PHOTO VANCOUVER BC’. Stephen Joseph Thompson, photographer (1864-1929)
On back publisher stamp ‘PEARSON’S BOOKSHOP CALGARY’
Postmarked CALGARY, ALTA JULY 5 1908 on 2 cent King Edward VII postcard mailed to France. French postmarks ‘PARIS 18 JUILLET 06 ETRANGER’ and ‘SEDAN…’
Some postmark ink on front.
