Historical information

Photograph looks north along Glenferrie Road with centre tramway overhead poles and several electric trams in motion. The road is lined with commercial buildings as numerous horse drawn carts and pedestrians go about their business along the roadway and footpaths. Postcards were a common way of quickly communicating with others before the telephone and were cheaper than telegrams.

Significance

Yields information about early Glenferrie Road and an early communication method.

Physical description

Postcard with location and greetings on front and postcard markings, stamp with personal message on rear.

Inscriptions & markings

Printed at bottom of photograph: 'Glenferrie Road, Malvern'. On the rear are postcard markings with a handwritten personal message in ink: 'Malvern, Won't meet two-thirty train. But if possible meet five-thirty. Will be bringing home a heavy bag. We are getting English mail late afternoon. Eric. Miss G Martin, The Bend, Dandenong'. The one penny stamp bears the image of Queen Victoria who died in 1901.