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Pastoral Scene, Prince Edward Island postcard
Richards, Mrs.
937 SI Edith Russell postcard [2 of 3]
Item 2 of 3 in a small collection of postcards showing Prince Edward Island scenes, all addressed to Miss Edith Russell of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Edith May Russell (1877-1957) was hired to work in the newsroom of the Halifax, Nova Scotia newspaper 'The Daily Echo" in 1902, during the time L.M. Montgomery was employed there; notes in Montgomery's journals and surviving correspondence -- including this postcard --indicated that the two women kept in intermittent contact for many years thereafter, into the 1930s. This postcard bears a tinted / colourized lithographic image of cows grazing along a dirt road, with a bridge over a stream in the foreground. The sender, identified only by a signature as "Mrs. Richards", has no known connection to L.M. Montgomery, and the short message on the postcard makes no reference to anything Montgomery-related. The postmark is unclear, but the place of writing is identified as "North River, P.E.I."; research by the donor has dated the postcard to 1910.