$20.00 CAD
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Attractive photo of Main Street Winnipeg. Streetcar line with cars, horse-drawn carriages….
Written on negative
Main St. Winnipeg A . Barrowclough Winnipeg Manitoba
Signs “(S)cott & Bennett City property” ‘Mitchell (Mer)chant tailor’ ‘THE DOMINION BANK’ (demolished 1966)...
Unused. Undivided back. Some toning on back.
George Alfred Barrowclough (1870-1950)
Born at Birkenhead, England on 1 May 1870, he emigrated to Canada in 1882 and came to Winnipeg.
By the age of 25 years, he was working as a photographer at Stonewall, moving to Dominion City by 1901. Within two years, he was back in Winnipeg, working as a bank clerk. He established his own firm, Winnipeg Pictoral Post Cards, in 1904 and sold postcards of “choice views of Winnipeg and Suburbs, Canadian Buffaloes, Indians, Farm Scenes, Breaking, Plowing match, harvesting, and threshing, etc.; also scenes of Canadian Prairie Fire.” That same year, he is believed to have contributed photographs for the 195-page book Illustrated Souvenir of Winnipeg published by William A. Martel. In total, it is estimated that he produced some 600-700 postcards during his residence at Winnipeg.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/photographers/barrowclough_ga.shtml
