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      A red brick school house with bell tower on top.

      The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Passenger Depot was built in 1902 and served rail passengers as the gateway to Albuquerque and the Southwest for over 90 years. Built in the California Mission style, it sported a domed tower and red tile roof and was made with pebbledash stucco. …

      Chester Cathedral dates from between 1093 and the early 1500s, although the site itself may have been used for Christian worship since Roman times.

      Magdalen College, beside the River Cherwell, was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester. The large, square Magdalen Tower is a famous Oxford landmark, and there is a tradition since the days of King Henry VII that the college choir sings from the top of it at …

      Westminster Bridge, over the Thames River, was designed by Thomas Page and opened in 1862. It is a seven-arch wrought iron bridge with Gothic detailing by Charles Barry (the architect of the Palace of Westminster, in the background).

      On the north-east corner of the Chester city walls overlooking the canal, is the "King Charles' I Tower." The inscription above the door reads: "King Charles Stood on this Tower Sept. 24 1645. And saw his army defeated on Rowton Moor." However, Rowton cannot be seen from the tower as …

      (Condition: Fair. faded and tattered)

      (Condition: Fair. tattered and faded)

      The building on the left is the public school. Jacob Beam Elementary School is now in this location. The building on the right was built in 1887.

      The University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world, dating from 1451. In 1870 it moved from High Street, due to overcrowding and squalor of the city and the expanding factories and railways, to its current west end location at Gilmorehill, then a greenfield site enclosed …

      The John Knox House is an historic house in Edinburgh, Scotland, reputed to have been owned and lived in by Protestant Reformer John Knox (1505-1572) during the 16th century. The house itself was built in 1490, featuring a wooden gallery and hand-painted ceiling. Over the next few centuries many decorations …

      Stirling Castle dates from the 15th and 16th centuries.

      Printed on reverse: "The Auld Brig of Doon was made famous by Burns' [Robbie Burns, 1759-1796] poem 'Tam o' Shanter.' It was here Tam galloped himself and his steed into immortality. The date of the erection is uncertain." The postcard is of the old bridge over the River Doon, in …

      Black and white postcard of the Noiak family, circa 1910. The family has nine members, of which the father and mother are seated, with their children standing around them. The youngest children are in front and the oldest children are standing behind the parents. They are dressed in casual attire …

      Victoria Ave. (Reg. Rd. 24) goes off into the distance. On the right, at the bottom, is the corner of Tallman Dr. Moses F. Rittenhouse paid for the installation of sidewalks from Highway 8 (Reg. Rd. 81) all the way to Lake Ontario. The trees were finally cut down in …

      The S/S Virginian was launched in 1904 in Glasgow, with passenger accommodation of: 346 first class, 286 second class, and 1000 steerage. She was scrapped in 1955 in Trieste. Printed on the front: Allan R.M. Line, "Victorian" and "Virginian," turbine triple-screws, 12,000 tons.

      From the 1850s to the 1870s Charlotte, New York had a flourishing business in shipping but then certain bills were passed by the federal government favoring the railroads and harbours became nearly empty. In 1880 Bell, Lewis and Yates Co. built coal docks on the river next to the iron …

      The Ontario Car Ferry company was formed in 1905 in a joint venture between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pennsylvania Railroad. The two ferries based in Cobourg also perfomed the secondary function of taking passengers and sometimes their cars across Lake Ontario. This first ferry, named …

      Postmark on the front. Possibly Halton County Council Members on bridge.

      Built as the glass gardens, these premises became Smith and Stone with additions put on the front of the building.