Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
1956.018.074.093 |
Object Name |
Postcard |
Title |
Galt Collegiate Institute |
Description |
A postcard with a coloured photograph of the Galt Collegiate Institute. The three-storey building is lit up. There is a central tower with cupola. The sky is coloured a grey-blue and the grass a green-black. Printed along the lower right is: Galt Collegiate Institute, Galt, Ont.; and on the left: 102,419 J.V. It is postmarked on the back: Galt, Ont. Can./ Nov 21/ 6:30 PM/ 1907. There is a cancelled one-cent stamp. It is addressed to: Miss Estelle Kribs/ Hespeler/ Ont. A note on the upper left corner reads: Well Estelle I am sure you will think I had forgotten you but I have been busy. Grace. Printed along the left side is: The Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd. Montreal and Toronto/ Printed in Great Britain/ Chapple, Bookseller and Stationer, Galt, Ont. |
Date |
1907 |
History |
Mary "Estelle/Estella" Kribs (1887-1977) was a daughter of William Abram Kribs (1859-1943) and Rhoda Fidilla Duffield (1863-1939) of Hespeler, ON. William was a local manufacturer, who owned several mills, a contractor, and former mayor of Hespeler. Estelle and her sister, Elizabeth "Viola" Kribs (1886-1978), never married. Later in life, they lived together in Hespeler. Viola trained as a nurse in the United States and served with the US Army during the First World War. She later became a naturalized U.S. citizen and continued to work as a nurse. Both sisters are buried in Cambridge's New Hope Cemetery. |
Search Terms |
Galt Collegiate Institute Valentine & Sons Publishing Company Limited Chapple Bookseller and Stationer |
People |
Kribs, Mary Estelle |
Creator |
Valentine & Sons Publishing Co., Ltd. |