Historical information

Postcard shows cable trams and many pedestrians in Bourke Street looking west between Swanston Street and Elizabeth Street. Advertising on the side wall of a four storey building includes "Wertheim Pianos, sewing, Suttons, Yeoma, Linda Piano.

Significance

Yields information about Bourke Street and its international connections

Physical description

Black & white postcard with title on front and senders details, recipient address, stamps on rear.

Inscriptions & markings

On front 'Bourke Street, Melbourne' ; on rear '15 Dec 1910, Franziska, Herman G Seidel, 43 Kerr St, Fitzroy, 852 Globe Melbourne Vict Aust, Made in Germany, Monsieur Paul Lenglett, 12 Place de la Bourse, Paris Seine France' and two stamps postmarked Melbourne 15Dec10'.