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Description: Postcard, vertical; 2 sepia photos, horizontal, arranged one above the other, rounded corners, with plain border all around and between; upper photo is very dark, road through forest, black handwritten caption below "Burnaby Lake Road"; lower photo is very light, shores, water, captioned "Burnaby Lake, B.C."; on reverse in grey, "POST CARD" at centre top; short horizontal line at centre divides card in half, at left, "For INLAND POSTAGE only the Space may be used for Communications"; at right, "THE ADDRESS ONLY TO BE WRITTEN HERE"; addressed in black ink to "Miss Olive Carter" "Langley. B.C."; message "Compliments of the Season, ("Nick"), Bessie Laidlaw"; used as a Christmas card; round postmark "NEW WESTMINSTER B.C. CAN." "DEC 24" "12-M" "1905"?; green Edward VII stamp at upper right, "CANADA POSTAGE" "ONE CENT" "1", cancelled with seven wavy lines, letters? down left side; pencilled at upper left "$5 BURNABY LAKE BC"; at lower left, pencilled "#1515 2/93 RAL"; creases, lightly soiled, darkened around edges

Marks/Labels: Burnaby Lake Road / Burnaby Lake, B.C. / Miss Olive Carter / Langley / B.C. / Compliments / Bessie Laidlaw / DEC 24

Subjects: Documentary Artifacts; Documentary Artifacts - Postcards; Documentary Artifacts - Photographs