General Information

Serial #

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Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

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Patents

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General Description

paper cover and post cards; metal staples

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

21.0 cm

Width

9.1 cm

Height

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Thickness

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Weight

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Diameter

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Volume

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Lexicon

Group

Marine Transportation

Category

Archives

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Valentine

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Toronto

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

These postcards never used as mailing device. The souvenir album was purchased c. 1955 by Mme. Marguerite Massicotte (Dubè), mother of the donor, while on vacation with her husband.

Canada

Thousand Islands area promoted as a popular tourism destination since the 19th c.. and frequented by honeymooners. Steamboats, and later motorized boats, ferried sightseers between and around the numerous picturesque islands of this area of the St. Lawrence River. This album, printed by Valentine Black Co. Ltd., Toronto advertises the "Miss Brockville" cruise boats operated by Snider Boat Lines in Brockville, Ont.

Function

Keepsake or souvenir booklet, illustrates and promotes specific cruise boats and destinations in Brockville, Ont. area.

Technical

Postcards were first used in Canada in 1871. These were official postcards, on which the engraved or illustrated front was intended to bear an address, and nothing else. In 1895 private postcards with an undivided back appeared, on which the address but no message could be recorded. Postcards with a divided back, ie. having one area for the message and another for the address, were approved for use by Canadian postal authorities in 1903.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Booklet front cover marked "Miniature/ View Album/ of my/ Thousand Island/ Cruise/ via the/ "Miss Brockville"/ Boats/ Brockville, Ontario,/ Canada/ Souvenir of/ THE THOUSAND ISLANDS/ ONTARIO CANADA/ THE "Miss Brockville" Boats/ SNIDER BOAT LINES". Back cover marked "Published by/ Valentine Black Co. Ltd./ TORONTO - CANADA/ No. 89". All postcards have perforated tear line: postcard "register" front remains in booklet when postcard. Most postcards and register portion bear titles: from booklet front, titles on cards are "MISS BROCKVILLE VII./ SNIDER ISLAND BOAT TOURS./ BROCKVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA"; "MISS BROCKVILLE V./ SNIDER 1000 ISLAND BOAT TOURS,/ BROCKVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA"; " "HOPEWELL HALL," ALEXANDRIA BAY/ THOUSAND ISLANDS, ST. LAWRENCE RIVER/ CANADA"; "THOUSAND ISLANDS COUNTRY CLUB,/ THOUSAND ISLANDS, ST. LAWRENCE RIVER."; " "CASTLE REST," THE PULLMAN SUMMER HOME, ALEXANDRIA BAY, THOUSAND ISLANDS, CANADA"; "FIRST UNITED STATES NAVY VESSEL ON ST. LAWRENCE RIVER, CANADIAN WATERS, IN 100 YEARS./ PASSING UNDER MAIN SPAN THOUSAND ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE, THOUSAND ISLANDS, CANADA"; "VIEW FROM THOUSAND ISLANDS BRIDGE, SHOWING GEORGINA ISLAND, CANADA"; and "ZAVIKON, THOUSAND ISLANDS,/ (SHOWING THE SMALLEST INTER-/ NATIONAL BRIDGE IN THE WORLD)./ THOUSAND ISLANDS, CANADA". Reverse of each register entry card marked "Addressee:____________/ Date:____________/ Remarks:/___________". Reverse of 8 postcards marked " Copyrighted. Published by Valentine Black Co. Ltd., Toronto, Canada", "Correspondence"/ POST/ CARD/ VB/ BOND STREET SERIES/ Address Only" and "PLACE/ STAMP/ HERE/ TH. 15-6". Two cards bear titles on card back only: marked " Imperial Island, Thousand Islands/ St. Lawrence River, Canada", and "Canadian Spans, Thousand Islands In-/ ternational Bridge, Connecting Canada/ at Ivy Lea, Ontario and United States/ at Collins Landing, New York". These two cards also marked on back: "Valentine-Black Co. Ltd., Toronto, Canada", "POST CARD/ THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY", and "PLACE/ STAMP/ HERE/ TH. 15.-28".

Missing

One portion of back cover appears to be missing.

Finish

Booklet has pale yellow-orange wrinkle-textured heavy paper covers; colour illustration postcards (10) printed on heavy paper and have off-white colour back. Booklet pages secured by 2 metal staples.

Decoration

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