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WP2185 WPG - EATON & CO BLOCK

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Publisher / Photographer: Russell, Lang & Co. #13

Notation: Not sure why, but three people appear to be sitting in the north side of the roof.
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wintorbos said:

I have that one too.

In the series, I have:

1. Queen Victoria Monument
2. Parliament Buildings
5. Empire Hotel
6. Manitoba Club
7. Main Entrance - C.P.R. Depot
8. Government Experimental Farm, Brandon, Man.
11. Carnegie Library
12. Assiniboine Avenue at Armstrong's Point
13. T. Eaton & Co. Block
14. Holy Trinity Church
15. St. Mary's Academy
16. Harvesting Scene
19. Main Street, Showing Union Bank
20. Buffalo at Silver Heights
21. Cumberland Street
22. Edmonton Street, South
23. City Hall Park and Main Street
26. The General Hospital

So missing 3, 4, 9, 10, 17, 18, 24, 25 and anything 27 and up. I also have a bunch of other Albertypes that are basically identical except that I can't see any numbers (the numbers on these are sometimes really hard to find):

-- Old Fort Garry Gateway and Rear of Manitoba Club
-- Panoramic View of Winnipeg, Man. [bifold looking north on Main Street and showing a lot of the western warehouse district as well]
-- Canadian Pacific R'y. Hotel in course of Erection.
-- Royal Alexandra Hotel [same as above, but with piles of dirt and construction materials airbrushed out; or else they're airbrushed IN to the other one, because they look a bit fake]
-- Broadway from Fort Garry Court
7 years ago

Canafornian replied to wintorbos:

Well, I can toss these in:
3. Fort Garry Gate
4. Union Bank of Canada Volunteers’ Monument City Hall
9. Law Courts

Not Numbered:
View at Armstrong’s Point
7 years ago

wintorbos said:

#17 just arrived in the mail - had forgotten about having seen this:

17. Main Street, Looking North [with Post Office, Bank of Hamilton, Canadian Bank of Commerce, Merchants Bank and Bank of Ottawa labelled as well]
7 years ago

Canafornian replied to wintorbos:

Well on your way to a full deck!
7 years ago

wintorbos said:

I used to pass these up but a couple of years ago I started liking them!
7 years ago

Diane Putnam said:

Was Eaton a department store...or...mixed use in this building? It's kind of amazing to see such a massive building in what I suppose was a small city at the time.

Edit: According to Wikipedia the pop. in 1901 was about 43,000. About the size of my city in Oregon. There are none even close to that size!
6 years ago