Historical information

Photograph looks north along Glenferrie Road towards High Street and the Malvern Town Hall clock tower, where a large number of people are gathered across the intersection. A single truck tramcar number 5 travels towards the High Street intersection along the double track tramway on Glenferrie Road as a few pedestrians walk along the footpath. The photographer is located just north of the new Prahran and Malvern Tramway Trust depot that opened in May 1910. No motor vehicles are in sight. Letters and postcards were the primary form of communication between people before the telephone; postcards were frequently used to send a short note to another person who lived in the same city. There were two mail deliveries on weekdays and one on Saturdays.

Significance

Yields information about the use of postcards for short messages

Physical description

Black and white photograph with note on front and postcard message and stamp on rear.

Inscriptions & markings

Note on front reads: "Glenferrie Road, Malvern"
Written in ink on rear: "Miss G Martin, The Bend, Dandenong, Malvern Will be home by two thirty train Eve"