Palace Clothing Company and T. J. Bonner on Main Street, c 1900

Palace Clothing Company and T. J. Bonner on Main Street, c 1900. Courtesy of Dalhousie University Archives, Waldren Studios Collection, 277-087. Restoration: Jeff Parker

B12 - Palace Clothing Company and T. J. Bonner on Main Street, c 1900

Postcards were made from the Waldren photo and printed in Germany. The mud, the the workman, the wheelbarrow, and the telephone have miraculously disappeared, and this before the day of Photoshop. Pat Walsh (1989) in The History of Antigonish observes the “Antigonish maintains its reputation to this day of being tidy little town” (pl 144).

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