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Meliden from Roundwood

This photo postcard is a professionally taken ground level view of girl on bicycle in Wales. Matthews' note on the photo describes the location as "near Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales, where my beloved Father and Mother lived". The postcard was sent to Major Matthews from E.J.B. in Flintshire.

[Motorcyclists entertain spectators before the Diamond Jubilee Parade]

Item is a photograph showing Hastings Street looking west towards the Marine Building. Text material with the photograph reads: "Vancouver Citizens' Diamond Jubilee Committee Press Release
Cut lines - Looking west on Hastings Street towards the Marine Building behind which stands a tiny shack which was the city's first building erected in 1852. The lads on motorcycles are amusing the waiting spectators who are are [sic] awaiting the arrival of the great Diamond jubilee parade on July 1, 1946, which inaugurated the city's two weeks' birthday celebrations."

Our First Fifty Years 1886 - 1936 Vancouver, Canada. View Looking North From Nelson Street

Prominent buildings in photograph are: Manhattan Apartments (784 Thurlow Street), Marine Building (355 Burrard Street), Hotel Vancouver (900 West Georgia Street), Provincial Court House (750 Hornby Street); Second Hotel Vancouver (Granville Street), Vancouver Block (736 Granville Street), First Baptist Church (969 Burrard Street) and St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church (1012 Nelson Street).

[Panoramic view looking north from the Hotel Vancouver]

Photographs show the west side of the 600 Block of Howe Street, Manor House, Deadman's Island, the 600 Block of Granville Street, the Van Horne Block, the Hudson Bay Company store, the Homer Street Methodist Church, the tower of Holy Rosary Cathedral and other buildings and houses

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