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Nice early image of Guelph's St. Georges Square and the Post Office. Nice composition with multiple streetcars and horse-drawn buggies.
Labeled inside picture LL ‘CHAS L. NELLES’ and LR ‘ST. GEORGES SQUARE AND POST OFFICE’
Labeled outside of picture LL 'GUELPH CANADA'
Charles Nelles was a stationer who commissioned postcards.
Unused
Light toning, especially in corners.
In 1899, Charles moved the City Book Store to 81 Upper Wyndham St., currently the home of Afterlife Video Game Lounge. A Chamber of Commerce pamphlet of 1903 describes the premises as being of "ample dimensions" and "filled with books in every branch of literature," especially the latest novels. Besides this, the City Book Store provided foreign newspapers, room mouldings, fine leather goods, office stationery and wallpaper….
Charles Nelles was also an early adopter of picture postcards. Around 1901, he had photographs of local scenes printed up by Guelph printers for sale in his store. In 1904, he had a set of professional picture postcards printed by the Albertype Company of New York. The peak of this business was in 1905, when he sold between 20,000 and 30,000 postcards. He continued to sell postcards into the 1920s.
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