c. 1907 Valentine & Sons Postcard #102,589 - Gun Layers' Competition at Petawawa Camp, Ontario, Canada
RPO postmark on the back from the 21st July 1907.
Valentine & Sons Postcards / Petawawa - Petawawa related postcards (12 postcards) produced by Valentine & Sons:
These were first printed in 1907 - they had several printings and were sold until 1913. The backs of these postcards changed with the various printings (blank backs, A.B. Petrie, Guelph, blue ink - this was used on the first printing, sage green, etc.) The earliest date I have seen on these postcards is 21 June 1907 (A.B. Petrie Guelph / blue ink) - so the photos for these postcards must have been taken in 1906.
#102,585 - Gun laying with Chrometer (need)
#102,586 - Laying Gun with Clinometer
#102,587 - Loading Gun
#102,588 - Heavy Artillary
#102,589 - Gun Layer's Competition
#102,590 - Engineer's Wagon
#102,591 - Battery Firing
#102,592 - Observation Point
#102,593 - Army Service Corps Ovens
#102,594 - Stables & Water trough
#102,595 - Camp Commandant's Headquarters on Hill
#103,775 - The Royal Canadian Riffles at Pettewawa, Ont.
Valentine and Sons of Dundee were once Scotland’s most successful commercial photographers. In 1907, at the height of the postcard revolution, the photographs they published showed scenes from around the world. Often regarded as only postcard publishers, Valentines produced images in various formats including fine early photographic prints.
The Valentine company was founded in Dundee by James’s father, John Valentine, in 1825. After learning the daguerreotype process in Paris in the late 1840s, James added portrait photography to the family business in 1851. By the 1860s the company had begun to cater to the growing tourist industry by producing photographic prints with views from around the country. After James’s death in 1880, his son William Dobson took over the ever-expanding business.
Valentine & Sons printed its first postcards in 1898. Canadian production began between 1903 and 1906 with offices established first in Montreal and then Toronto. The earliest Canadian postcards published by Valentine and Sons were monotone black, collotype views showing the scenery along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior and in the Rocky Mountains.
At Valentine’s the greeting card gradually replaced the picture postcard. What remained of a card making empire was sold to Hallmark Cards Inc. in 1980.
c. 1907 Valentine & Sons Postcard #102,589 - Gun Layers' Competition at Petawawa Camp, Ontario, Canada
RPO postmark on the back from the 21st July 1907.
Valentine & Sons Postcards / Petawawa - Petawawa related postcards (12 postcards) produced by Valentine & Sons:
These were first printed in 1907 - they had several printings and were sold until 1913. The backs of these postcards changed with the various printings (blank backs, A.B. Petrie, Guelph, blue ink - this was used on the first printing, sage green, etc.) The earliest date I have seen on these postcards is 21 June 1907 (A.B. Petrie Guelph / blue ink) - so the photos for these postcards must have been taken in 1906.
#102,585 - Gun laying with Chrometer (need)
#102,586 - Laying Gun with Clinometer
#102,587 - Loading Gun
#102,588 - Heavy Artillary
#102,589 - Gun Layer's Competition
#102,590 - Engineer's Wagon
#102,591 - Battery Firing
#102,592 - Observation Point
#102,593 - Army Service Corps Ovens
#102,594 - Stables & Water trough
#102,595 - Camp Commandant's Headquarters on Hill
#103,775 - The Royal Canadian Riffles at Pettewawa, Ont.
Valentine and Sons of Dundee were once Scotland’s most successful commercial photographers. In 1907, at the height of the postcard revolution, the photographs they published showed scenes from around the world. Often regarded as only postcard publishers, Valentines produced images in various formats including fine early photographic prints.
The Valentine company was founded in Dundee by James’s father, John Valentine, in 1825. After learning the daguerreotype process in Paris in the late 1840s, James added portrait photography to the family business in 1851. By the 1860s the company had begun to cater to the growing tourist industry by producing photographic prints with views from around the country. After James’s death in 1880, his son William Dobson took over the ever-expanding business.
Valentine & Sons printed its first postcards in 1898. Canadian production began between 1903 and 1906 with offices established first in Montreal and then Toronto. The earliest Canadian postcards published by Valentine and Sons were monotone black, collotype views showing the scenery along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior and in the Rocky Mountains.
At Valentine’s the greeting card gradually replaced the picture postcard. What remained of a card making empire was sold to Hallmark Cards Inc. in 1980.