Photograph shows a canvas tent boarding house and wooden shack advertising soup, meat, and bread for 25 cents and hot tea and coffee. A man wearing a vest is standing in the doorway of the shack. Another man wearing a three-piece suit and hat is seated on a seat at the corner of the structure while another man wearing an apron leans against the shack. Clothes can be seen drying on the surface of the large canvas tent.
Notes
Writing on the back of the photograph reads: Between 5th and 6th Street, Pacific Avenue opposite old CPR Station, April 1882. Photograph is stamped Public Archives Canada.
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Image of the former CPR Station; 3 old wagons (museum), Strathclair, Manitoba. Image was taken along the CPR Minnedosa & Bredenbury subdivision (ex. Manitoba & N.W. Railway).
For custodial history see the collection level description of the Lawrence Stuckey collection.
Scope and Content
Image of the former CPR Station; 3 old wagons (museum), Strathclair, Manitoba. Image was taken along the CPR Minnedosa & Bredenbury subdivision (ex. Manitoba & N.W. Railway).
"Published under the auspices of the Agricultural Committee of the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce with the cooperation of the Iowa State University Center for Agriculture and Economic Development."
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