Winnipeg from Fonseca Street, c. 1883

Magic lantern slide showing exceptional clarity. The road in the foreground is Fonseca Street, which was later joined to (and renamed) Higgins Avenue (Higgins Avenue still bends slightly at Meade Street where the two roads were joined). The view looks slightly southwest across Main Street -- one clue being the wooden Albion Hotel which stood from the 1880s, and somewhat anachronistically through the First World War, at SE Main and Henry. You can clearly see the 1882 (and still existing) Bathgate Block (at Princess and Alexander) in the background with its three sections with triple windows in each. There doesn't appear to be a single tree in the entire picture. There are some telegraph poles. The slide is marked with a partly torn-away tag reading "Dunscombe Optical [Collection?], presumably that of the great optical collector Matthew W. Dunscombe (1841-1918). Slide is from the series Canada Lectures, published by York & Son, London, in or after 1884. See www.magiclantern.org.uk/srllists/srldetails/92112.html

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Taken in: Canada / Manitoba / Winnipeg / South Point Douglas (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1883

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Sets appears in: • Year = 1883 • Winnipeg 1880s more » • Street = Higgins Avenue • Winnipeg houses • Neighbourhood = Point Douglas • Magic Lantern Slides • Winnipeg and Manitoba Hotels • Winnipeg and Manitoba History « less

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