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It’s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Pharmasave Huntsville!
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This 1910 postcard offers a picturesque view of Huntsville. At this time in Huntsville’s history, Town Hall had not yet been built (that wouldn’t occur until 1926), and while there was a swing bridge, the one we know today wasn’t in place (the current swing bridge was installed in 1938). Do you recognize the artist’s vantage point? (Image courtesy of Baldwin Collection, Toronto Reference Library)
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Post cards are such great things. Historically they automatically kind of sort out what was felt to be important at the time.
This was especially true in the further past as to take and create a picture, let alone publish it as a post card required quite a lot of effort and relatively speaking, money. Thus only “important” images became published, unlike today when we take thousands of digital images and publish them instantly without a care or thought in mind at all.
Careful study of old post cards and images published in books can be very revealing.
As noted in this case there were a lot less trees back in 1910.
To a homesteader of that time, most trees were viewed as the enemy, to be removed in a quest to create farm land. Little did these poor folks know that most of Muskoka best grew rocks.
I think the twin of this image is displayed at the Lookout. It’s taken from the Lookout and you can see there were at lot fewer trees and more fields back then.