According to Russ Gourluck (Silver Screens on the Prairie, Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2012, 26), the Orpheum Theatre was in operation from 1917 to 1920 when it then became the Willis Theatre.
Scope and Content
Postcard shows the 100 block of 10th Street facing north. The CPR train station can be seen at the end of 10th Street. The sign for the Rex Cafe is visible on the west side of 10th Street. On the east side of 10th Street, billboards for Campbell & Campbell furniture are visible as well as signs for Pianos and the Orpheum Theatre. Motorists and cyclists share the road. Street car tracks run the length of 10th Street.
Notes
Postcard was manufactured by T.B. [Tichnor Brothers, Inc., 1908-1987] Cambridge, Massachusetts.
See collection level description for Custodial History.
Scope and Content
Item consists of: Sq. C. Winnipeg, Man. 1st hammer #4 time mark 23 February 1898. Also Sq. C. Morden, Man. 8 March 1898, Return to and two Not Called for impressions. Reverse Sq. C. Morden, Man. 25 February 1898 and Winnipeg circle #6, 1 March 1898.