Photograph - Postcard and Black & White Photograph/s, c1905

Physical description

.1 Postcard size Souvenir Tram ticket, printed using blue ink on one side with fare, photos of power station, engine room, boiler room and a tram & No. 1887 stamped on edge. On reverse side is space for stamp, address etc., - with line & "postcard' etc., printed in red ink. Letter/note to Miss A Coote of St Kilda, stamped in Ballarat on 22-8-1905. Fares given on card are : Mount Pleasant and Orphanage and Grenville St. 3d, or Grenville St. and Tram sheds 3d. Printed in a blue/grey ink of various shades onto a white card. Acted as a souvenir card.



The letter writer notes the opening of the tramway and having a glorious holiday.



One Penny stamp, with Ballarat Cancellation stamp and - "5" stamped on the top of the postage stamp.



See also Reg Item 608 for further versions of this object and 7071 for another card used as a letter.



.2 - Letter from Melinda McIntyre regarding Agnes Coote story.



.3 - Photograph of Agnes Coote.`



See document file for correspondence and item for Fares Please!

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