Edwardian Postcards - Picturing the Past

Welcome to Edwardian Postcards.  I will be sharing a collection of approximately 350 Edwardian Postcards that belonged to my grandmother, Christina Campbell Dewar.  She lived and worked in Edinburgh, Scotland from about 1904 to 1910, after which she came to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The postcard shown here is a picture of the Victorian mansion where she worked as a cook. Today 33 Mayfield Gardens is a Bed and Breakfast. I stayed there in 2006, and took my own shot of this street.

These postcards were the subject of an academic study in 2006, 2007 resulting in four academic presentations and papers published in Canada and Denmark. The study was by Dr. Karen Malcolm, University of Winnipeg, and Barbara J. Becker, Linguistic Consultant.  We looked at the text messages on the back of the postcards as well as the visual message on the fronts of the postcards. A link to the online Denmark paper is included.


Along the way, I learned a lot about Edwardian Scotland.