Date

1925;

Description

Early 1st Avenue Northwest in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, facing south. The brick building on the right is the telephone exchange building on the southwest corner of Chaplin Street and 1st Avenue Northwest, the building south of it is the Carlton Apartments. Carlton was built in 1913 by Jack W. Bertin at 118 1st Avenue Northwest, Swift Current. Burnt down in 1953.

Materials

Photographic Paper

Measurements

8.8 cm L x 6.5 cm W

Marks/Labels

Verso: "Telephone office in corner - wooden sidewalks along 2nd Avenue West - about 1925 - Carleton Hotel on the right end." Jack W. Bertin is also connected to the Swift History business records of Bertin's Wholesale Liquors/Bertin and Webster's Beer Distributors and Bertin's Ltd Clothing

Category

Photograph